Emmeline Pankhurst

It was apparently MG who began the action, when Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman refused to meet the suffrage deputation and she sprang on one of the sacred velvet chairs, and began to speak.

During her time with the WSPU, MG worked with Christabel Pankhurst (who was twenty-four when Gawthorpe first met her, before she had yet met Isabella Ford ), whom, like Ethel Snowden , she knew from...

She questions the escalation (under the influence of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst in particular) from attacking property to the kind of violence which she feared would lead to attacks on individuals or even to a...

Largely because of KBG 's feelings on the subject, the couple initially planned not to have children, so that they could both continue to devote their lives to the socialist cause. But KBG's mind was...

After their marriage, KBG and her husband, John Bruce Glasier , formed an effective socialist partnership very much like that of Sidney and Beatrice Webb . They maintained their involvement in the Independent Labour Party

The women formed this committee (a break-away group from the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage ) after backing Labour candidate David Shackleton in a by-election. In exchange for the support of EGB ...

Other contributors included Millicent Garrett Fawcett , Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst , and Constance Smedley .

SG began giving public lectures this year, the year after publishing her ground-breaking novel on syphilis, The Heavenly Twins. She lectured at the Pioneer Club , the Sunday Lecture Society (at St George's Hall...

A performance at Sunderland the following year drew its cast from more than fifty local women's groups and was attended by an audience of 2,000. In the same year many photographs were taken in London...

The play was both a critical success and enormously popular, though some trade papers attacked it as being propagandist.Edith Craig directed a nationwide tour (England and Wales) of the play in 1910...

Hamilton focuses primarily on her professional life and politics, with few personal details. In her chapter on suffrage, Women on the Warpath, she aligns herself with the non-militant, constitutional suffragists, and denounces the militant...

BH wrote to Christabel Pankhurst (who was in exile in Paris) to protest in the strongest terms against her permitting her mother , and others like Olive Beamish and Lilian Lenton, to damage their...

The title-page quotes W. B. Yeats : Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams. The country community where the story is set centres closely on Crump, the great house of the ancient Lyndesay...

VH wrote that she would gladly have been jailed for her efforts along with other activists, but because she was the caregiver of her aging mother and young niece , Mrs Pankhurst and Christabel kindly...

NJ began her political life as a Tory who thought Socialism deeply shocking, like all or most of the older generation of her very mixed family. She went out canvassing at elections, urging people to...