Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography
of Sylvia’s initiative to win mass support for the WSPU. Sylvia had decided to settle in the area since it had a long history of ...
End, a possible factor that neither Romero nor Winslow mention.^18 Whatever the ‘facts’ at the time, a disappointed Sylvia, writ ...
At a meeting at the London Opera House on 2 December, held in honour of Lansbury, Emmeline warned that the anti-government polic ...
I am as you see still at large for in spite of provocation the enemy will not have me.^32 As the festive season approached, Emme ...
Despite being marked ‘Private and Confidential’ a copy of the letter was forwarded anonymously to Scotland Yard in an envelope b ...
and in large West End shops were broken and both women were amongst the forty-nine arrested. The crowds who had once cheered the ...
arrested for conspiracy, sedition, etc.’ She also confided, ‘Although we do not see much of each other I am very fond of you &am ...
state of ‘terrible anxiety’ over the fate of Sylvia who was being forcibly fed in prison.^52 After the working women’s demonstra ...
mainly guilty of incitement [to violence]’, she uttered coolly on the 17 March, ‘are the people who are governing this country.’ ...
of her daughter deeply shocked Emmeline. In addition to her weight loss, the veins of Sylvia’s eyes had been ruptured so that th ...
Now do talk to Dr. H or get her to find you something temporary. Love Mother Sylvia is very weak but improving^65 Despite her he ...
are intolerable conditions. ... Only this morning I have had informa- tion brought to me which could be supported by sworn affid ...
sit down like a flock of sheep? ... Militancy will be more furious than before.’ She asked those who sympathised with militancy ...
Emmeline, in her lonely Holloway prison cell early in April 1913, went on hunger strike for nine terrible days, subsisting only ...
presented Emmeline with her licence that Friday evening, she summoned up what strength she could and tore it into strips. ‘I hav ...
On 28 April, the day that Emmeline’s licence expired, she was visited by Sylvia and her solicitor, Alfred Marshall, who stated t ...
Books’ that listed the convictions and release of WSPU members, as well as expenses incurred on various journeys, and a log that ...
echoed privately by many WSPU members, such as Mary Blathwayt who resigned her WSPU membership. But, as Hannam observes, both Ma ...
member, Ada Cecile Wright who had six convictions against her and was trav- elling to New York.^30 When Sylvia visited her mothe ...
marching behind and before it, was a poignant reminder that while the disciple might be honoured in death, the leader was subjec ...
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