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
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Author summary | Anna Wheeler | Anna Wheeler
has been called the most important feminist after Mary Wollstonecraft
and before Emmeline Pankhurst
. Roberts, Marie Mulvey et al., editors. “Introduction”. The Reformers: Socialist Feminism, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, p. xi - xv. xii |
politics | Natalie Clifford Barney | NCB
kept the salon going through the First World War. In 1917 she organised a meeting of women committed to pacifism which included a gentle, white-haired little woman who turned out to be Mrs [Emmeline] Pankhurst |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Fifty years later in her autobiography, EPL
explains how, although Katherine Price Hughes
never explicitly lectured on female equality, the expectations Katherine had for the women in the club introduced Emmeline to the influence and... |
politics | Constance Lytton | 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... |
politics | Rebecca West | 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 |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | 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... |
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 |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | 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 |
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
... |
politics | Dora Marsden | Christabel
and Emmeline Pankhurst
, Mary Gawthorpe
, and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
also spoke at this event. |
politics | Stella Benson | SB
had been a moderate until the death of the Derby Martyr, Emily Wilding Davison
, in 1913. After this she became more militant. When she moved to London in May 1914, she called... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | 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... |
politics | Dora Marsden | Charges against the women were dropped owing to pressure from the University Chancellor, the Liberal writer and statesman Lord Morley
(now a Viscount), whose speech they had interrupted and who was said to be appalled... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | One conservative point in ER
's outlook at this time was her willingness to allow pressure for equal pay to slacken. As Johanna Alberti
comments, Rathbone believed men in the armed forces were making a... |
politics | Mona Caird | With regard to the suffrage cause, MCwas loosely involved with the Women's Social and Political Union
in 1907-8 Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press. 163 |
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