Emmeline Pankhurst

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 .

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...

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).

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

MS 's maternal grandparents lived over her grandmother's shop at 288 High Street, Watford, where Muriel spent summer holidays as a child. This grandmother, Adelaide Uezzell , had been a suffragette and an acquaintance...

ES first performed her anthem The March of the Women (written for the WSPU , with words by Cicely Hamilton ); she dedicated it to Emmeline Pankhurst .

ES 's Female Pipings in Eden, a volume of collected essays, included a memoir of Emmeline Pankhurst , whom she considered more astounding than Joan of Arc .

During her work with the Women's Social and Political Union , ES became devoted to Emmeline Pankhurst , co-founder of the WSPU . Emmeline Pankhurst's daughter Sylvia paints ES 's devotion in rather unflattering terms:...

The March of the Women was published in the year of its composition in ES 's little collection Songs of Sunrise, through the Woman's Press , with an illustration by Margaret Morris . Emmeline Pankhurst