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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Friends, Associates | Rebecca West | RW
was introduced by Virginia Woolf
to Ethel Smyth
, whom she had ardently looked forward to meeting; West and Smyth discussed Emmeline Pankhurst
, about whom they had both been writing. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press. 5: 254, 259 |
Friends, Associates | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | While in South Africa, the Pethick-Lawrences met many prominent political figures, including W. P. Schreiner
, who had been Prime Minister of the Cape in 1898. Emmeline became a good friend of the well-known feminist... |
Friends, Associates | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | Through her early mentor W. Pett RidgeGHS
met various literary men: W. W. Jacobs
, Barry Pain
, Jerome K. Jerome
, Hugh Walpole
, and Ernest Temple Thurston
. Pett Ridge (P... |
Friends, Associates | Lydia Becker | These two episodes did not endear LB
to Emmeline Pankhurst
. Ursula
and Jacob Bright
remained her close friends. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | She became a close friend of Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson
, of Hertha Ayrton
, physicist and suffragist, and of Ayrton's daughter, Barbara Gould
. These two women, mother and daughter, embodied a thread linking... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | VW
met and began a friendship with Ethel Smyth
, a generation older than herself: composer, author, militant suffragist, former close friend and future biographer of Emmeline Pankhurst
. Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan. 128 |
Friends, Associates | Ethel Smyth | During her work with the Women's Social and Political Union
, ES
became devoted to Emmeline Pankhurst
, co-founder of the WSPU
. Emmeline Pankhurst's daughter Sylvia
paints ES
's devotion in rather unflattering terms:... |
Friends, Associates | L. M. Montgomery | Around the same time she also met Emmeline Pankhurst
and described her as resembling a Presbyterian elder's wife who has done nothing more strenuous in her life than putting up with the elder and running... |
Friends, Associates | Emma Frances Brooke | EFB
's involvement with the socialist and feminist movements of the day brought her into close contact with several notable activists and revolutionaries. Through the Fabian Society
, she interacted with Beatrice
and Sidney Webb |
Friends, Associates | William Morris | WM
's associates included George Bernard Shaw
, Annie Besant
, Emery Walker
, Vernon Lee
, as well as Emmeline
and Sylvia Pankhurst
. His friendship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti
ended in 1875, as... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christabel Pankhurst | CP
's mother was the suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst
. CP
enjoyed a very close relationship with her mother, which had the effect of excluding her next sister, Sylvia
. Castle, Barbara. Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst. Penguin. 18 Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan. 40 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Pankhurst | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lydia Becker | One of LB
's allies in Manchester suffrage politics was Richard Pankhurst
. Her letters suggest that she found him congenial and entertaining. Possibly hostile rumours later suggested that she hoped to marry him, and... |
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... |
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