Emmeline Pankhurst

The magistrate sentenced eleven women (ten arrested outside parliament and one, Sylvia Pankhurst , arrested at the court) to two months in Holloway Prison's second division (which at this time held convicted criminals, while...

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.

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...

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...

While the WSPU 's recruitment increased during 1907, its governing members began to disagree over its direction: one party wanted the Union to be run democratically with a constitution, while the other, headed by Emmeline

With regard to the suffrage cause, MCwas loosely involved with the Women's Social and Political Union in 1907-8 and in the latter year shared a cab with Emmeline Pankhurst at the great WSPU...

The militancy of the suffragists changed from being mostly symbolic to being actually embattled on 29 June 1909. That day Emmeline Pankhurst and her deputation were arrested for refusing to leave the premises at the...

She was recruited for the suffrage movement by Annie Kenney and Tessa Billington Greig , and soon became one of its leaders, along with Millicent Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst . Of her appointment with the...

While researching her suffrage play, Votes for Women!, ER became an active member of the suffrage movement. In July 1906 she began attending meetings of the Women's Social and Political Union , and her...

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...

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...

Earlier that year ER had publicly defended militant tactics, but she was troubled by the PankhurstsChristabel PankhurstSylvia Pankhurst ' move toward a more radical militancy. She nevertheless continued to support women's issues. In the early...

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 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...

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...