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.

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politics Christabel Pankhurst
At the meeting at her mother's home where the Women's Social and Political Union was born, CP was the one who gave the Union the name by which it is known to history.
Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press.
3
politics Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
EPL and her colleagues from the WSPU , including the PankhurstChristabel Pankhurst s and Kenney , presented their arguments for female enfranchisement to Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman .
Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion.
154-5
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 Elizabeth Robins
Earlier that year ER had publicly defended militant tactics, but she was troubled by the PankhurstsChristabel PankhurstSylvia Pankhurst ' move toward a more radical militancy.
Gates, Joanne E. Elizabeth Robins, 1862-1952. University of Alabama Press.
205-9, 211-12
She nevertheless continued to support women's issues. In the early...
politics Naomi Jacob
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...
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
politics Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
EPL spoke at a meeting for female suffrage at Caxton Hall. The leaders of the WSPU , Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst , had been arrested, of their own volition as part of a staged...
politics Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
At the height of the suffrage movement, EPL spoke in connection with the largest procession to date, at the Albert Hall. So did Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst , Annie Kenney , Annie Besant ...
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 Olive Schreiner
OS did not support the use of violence. As a pacifist, she disapproved of Emmeline Pankhurst 's militant feminism. (She was a personal friend, however, of Sylvia Pankhurst .) She supported Gandhi 's satyagraha movement...
politics Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
The British government, in an attempt to round up the entire leadership of the WSPU , arrested both EPL and her husband , along with Emmeline Pankhurst , charging them with conspiring to commit damage.
Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion.
264
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
politics Gladys Henrietta Schütze
Emmeline Pankhurst , just released from prison under the Cat and Mouse Act because of her fragile condition, needed a place to hold a meeting without being arrested, and GHS 's house was chosen.
Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. More Ha’pence Than Kicks. Jarrolds.
102-10
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 Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
EPL and her husband left the WSPU after Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst declared their intention to run an escalated militant campaign.
Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion.
280-2

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