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 ascending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Cicely Hamilton | The play was both a critical success and enormously popular, though some trade papers attacked it as being propagandist. Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press. 88 |
Textual Features | Cicely Hamilton | 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... |
Occupation | Sarah Grand | 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... |
Textual Production | Eva Gore-Booth | Other contributors included Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, Christabel
and Emmeline Pankhurst
, and Constance Smedley
. |
politics | Eva Gore-Booth | 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
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Bruce Glasier | 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... |
politics | Katharine Bruce Glasier | 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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Gawthorpe | Just before this family drama MG
had acquired a boyfriend. He has been identified as T. B. (Tom) Garrs
, a compositor on the Yorkshire Post and an enthusiast about music, whom she had met... |
politics | Mary Gawthorpe | During this period, she wrote later from the USA, she was blown by two powerful and regular winds which seemed to keep changing direction, those of the Labour movement and the Woman Suffrage movement. Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press. 203 |
politics | Mary Gawthorpe | 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. Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge. 127 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Gawthorpe | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Gawthorpe | 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... |
politics | Kate Parry Frye | She officially resigned from the New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage
on 30 April 1916. She voted Conservative in the general election of 1924 (perhaps because of the way the Liberals had failed to support... |
politics | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | The organisation was formed by consolidating all the local societies working for Women's Suffrage. By 1907, however, MGF
turned definitively against the policy of direct action, which had become linked especially with the name of... |
politics | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | Politics came to the village of Bearsted in these years in an event which EBO
relates with heavy irony. Bearsted, being conservative like most villages, was strongly against votes for women: the curate went so... |
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