Emmeline Pankhurst

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

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...

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 ...

Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst , Mary Gawthorpe , and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence also spoke at this event.

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

After a term in prison, SP described the torture of force feeding in an article published in The Suffragette under the title They tortured me; her graphic letter about it to her mother appeared...

SP sent a letter to the editor of the socialist periodical Forward condemning her mother's support of the Tories; reprinted in several British papers, it brought to the fore the Pankhurst family tensions.

A permanent, visible memorial to SP has proved a contentious issue. Emmeline and Christabel have a statue and plaque near the House of Commons ; Sylvia was felt to be too pacifist and too socialist...

The play was both a critical success and enormously popular, though some trade papers attacked it as being propagandist.Edith Craig directed a nationwide tour (England and Wales) of the play in 1910...

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...