Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography
awaited statement, made on 1 June, said that the week set aside for the bill would be ‘elastic’ and that the opportunity offered ...
was saluted by the women who dipped and raised their pennants.^59 The sense of optimism that the Second Conciliation Bill would ...
I am sorry my dear child for your disappointment & wish I had seen you again before you left. As for the sculpting make your ...
Conciliation Bill, Emmeline and the other WSPU leaders decided to suspend the anti-Liberal government policy, provided candidate ...
It would appear that Lloyd George was advocating a wider measure of giving a vote to every wife of an elector by virtue of her h ...
Members of Parliament. ‘They had all agreed to support the Conciliation Bill’, she stressed, ‘although it did not give women all ...
Pethick would sail on the Oceanicon 4 October. ‘I shall be very glad to see your welcoming face when we land.’^84 Two days befor ...
Stanton Blatch, President of the WPU, introduced the speaker ‘as the woman who in all the world is doing the most for the suffra ...
women ‘asked every kind of ignorant question of Mrs. P., were amazed that she had been to prison, asked what her husband thought ...
As Emmeline continued her North American tour, she was still wondering if she should return home and had been enquiring about th ...
On 21 November, as Emmeline Pethick Lawrence led a deputation from Caxton Hall to Parliament Square, another smaller group of wo ...
army.’^9 But the announcements by the WSPU leaders were regarded as irra- tional and insane by an irritated Chancellor, who brea ...
other post-boxes earlier that day, acting entirely on her ‘own responsibility’.^14 When she came before the court, the accused c ...
for what they had done, for their promptitude, their courage, and their devotion in that time of crisis. If they were not to be ...
as leader of the WSPU by drawing up the lines of engagement for the women’s revolution. ‘It is perhaps one of the strangest thin ...
imagine Mrs. Pankhurst had not played ball games in her youth, and the first stone flew backwards out of her hand, narrowly miss ...
Ministers, and who help to pay your salary too, Sir, are going to have some voice in the making of the laws which they have to o ...
advance their cause’.^39 As the gap between the tactics of the militants and constitutionalists irrevocably widened, concerns we ...
Emmeline’s own petition for release on bail so that she could recover her health and prepare her case was refused. She was, howe ...
largely on physiological grounds and, in particular, that there was ‘mixed up’ with the militant suffragists ‘much mental disord ...
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