Emmeline Pankhurst

Here MS writes grippingly of her own life, and illuminatingly about myriad subjects of public or cultural interest: the lives, customs, and deaths of newspapers, the conspiracy of silence about sex which had not dissipated...

HBS is remembered above all as having contributed substantially with Uncle Tom's Cabin to the build-up of anti-slavery feeling in the North before the Civil War. The sense of her influence is encapsulated in the...

The book starts with an account of Mary Wollstonecraft 's work, and proceeds decade by decade, citing Florence Nightingale , Josephine Butler , John Stuart Mill , Sophia Jex-Blake , and many others. Its heroine...

This book opens by looking back just over a century, when John Stuart Mill presented petitions to parliament on behalf of women's suffrage in 1866 and 1867. It relates the story of the suffragist movement...

Nonetheless, several of her plays have never (in 2008) been staged. One is Wild Diamonds, set in South Africa and seen through the eyes of Olive Schreiner and Cecil Rhodes, which was commissioned...

RW was introduced by Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth , whom she had ardently looked forward to meeting; West and Smyth discussed Emmeline Pankhurst , about whom they had both been writing.

Later RW became a strong advocate for the suffrage cause through her journalism. To ensure her intellectual independence, she refrained from joining feminist organisations, though she admired feminist activists such as Emmeline Pankhurst and Emily Davison

In 1933 RW wrote an essay about Emmeline Pankhurst for The Post-Victorians. She also wrote essays about Charlotte Brontë , for The Great Victorians (1932), and Elizabeth Montagu , for From Anne to Victoria (1937).

Anna Wheeler has been called the most important feminist after Mary Wollstonecraft and before Emmeline Pankhurst . Her deep involvement in the Owenite Socialist Movement led her to translating work by French Saint-Simonians and...

VW met and began a friendship with Ethel Smyth , a generation older than herself: composer, author, militant suffragist, former close friend and future biographer of Emmeline Pankhurst .