Richard Marsden Pankhurst

On the wall above her deathbed hung an election manifesto written by her father when he was a candidate for the Independent Labour Party in Manchester in 1895. Emperor Haile Selassie ensured that she should...

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...

CP 's much older father was a lawyer, Dr Richard Pankhurst . He allegedly told his children, If you do not work for other people you will not have been worth the upbringing.

While CP and her mother were in Geneva, her father Richard Pankhurst suddenly became very ill. Christabel remained in Switzerland and her mother quickly left for home. However, her father died of a gastric ulcer...

Emmeline Goulden became engaged to Richard Pankhurst very soon after they met; their engagement ended in marriage sooner than at first intended because his mother's death had left him desolate.

Emmeline Goulden married Dr Richard Marsden Pankhurst , a lawyer more than twenty years her senior; their marriage took place in Eccles (now part of Salford), very quietly because of his mother's sudden death.

EP 's husband, Richard Pankhurst , died suddenly from perforated stomach ulcers while she and her daughter Christabel were visiting Geneva.

SP idolised her lawyer father, Dr Richard Pankhurst , who was very active in social reform.

In 1874 LB supported a suffrage bill brought in by a Conservative MP, which would have given the vote to unmarried women and widows only (on the basis that a married woman would merely duplicate...

This work, dealing with the earlier phases of the struggle, acknowledges the split among the Pankhursts, and confirms that SP felt uneasy about the WSPU leadership as early as 1911. It is a personal book...