Emmeline Pankhurst
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Standard Name: Pankhurst, Emmeline
Birth Name: Emmeline Goulden
Married Name: Emmeline Pankhurst
EP
's writings, produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, range from published political speeches to autobiography. All concern her lifelong struggle for women's emancipation.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb
, but also Dugald Stewart
and Henry Brougham
), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice
against... |
Textual Features | Judith Kazantzis | Again contemporary documents in facsimile accompany explanatory broadsheets (on the suffrage campaign itself and contextual subjects beginning with The Prison House of Home) and an illustrated timeline, Women in Revolt, running from 1743... |
politics | Ursula K. Le Guin | In the mid 1960s her feminism was as yet ill-thought-out. She didn't see how you could be a thinking woman and not be a feminist, but I had never taken a step beyond the ground... |
politics | Constance Lytton | She attended a preparatory meeting at Queen's Hall on Monday the 12th, and offered her services the next day to the leaders, Emmeline Pankhurst
, Christabel Pankhurst
, and Flora Drummond
. They asked her... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Constance Lytton | No intelligent woman, she wrote, could spend time in Holloway Prison
without realising that the wreckage of lives seen there resulted not from human frailty only but also from a state of law and public... |
Textual Features | Ethel Mannin | The novel's other main characters, Mary Thane and Stephen Lattimer, are, like Starridge, writers. One of the novel's focal points is the woman writer's changing role. Mary Thane, a prominent novelist, wants to stop writing... |
politics | Dora Marsden | Christabel
and Emmeline Pankhurst
, Mary Gawthorpe
, and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
also spoke at this event. |
politics | Dora Marsden | Charges against the women were dropped owing to pressure from the University Chancellor, the Liberal writer and statesman Lord Morley
(now a Viscount), whose speech they had interrupted and who was said to be appalled... |
Employer | Dora Marsden | By this time Marsden was earning an annual salary of £108. She resigned from the Union after one of its central committees (which included Christabel Pankhurst
, Emmeline Pankhurst
, and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
) refused... |
Textual Production | Dora Marsden | At the rally Marsden appeared on the Union platform, along with Emmeline
and Adela Pankhurst
, Flora Drummond
, Mary Gawthorpe
, and Rona Robinson
. Marsden
's suffrage work was also regularly reported in... |
Friends, Associates | L. M. Montgomery | Around the same time she also met Emmeline Pankhurst
and described her as resembling a Presbyterian elder's wife who has done nothing more strenuous in her life than putting up with the elder and running... |
Friends, Associates | William Morris | WM
's associates included George Bernard Shaw
, Annie Besant
, Emery Walker
, Vernon Lee
, as well as Emmeline
and Sylvia Pankhurst
. His friendship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti
ended in 1875, as... |
politics | Christabel Pankhurst | CP
, Emmeline Pankhurst
, and Flora Drummond
organized a rush on the House of Commons to begin at this time, infuriating members of the NUWSS
by their militant WSPU
tactics. Castle, Barbara. Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst. Penguin. 71-2 Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland. 50-1 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christabel Pankhurst | CP
's mother was the suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst
. CP
enjoyed a very close relationship with her mother, which had the effect of excluding her next sister, Sylvia
. Castle, Barbara. Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst. Penguin. 18 Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan. 40 |
Textual Production | Christabel Pankhurst | After her mother
's death, CP
considered bringing out a revised edition of her autobiography, My Own Story, but she decided not to do this after all. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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