Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography
lines, that he would give ‘written guarantees’ of this, and that he would ‘stake’ his ‘political reputation’ on it. In the meant ...
against forcible feeding and exposing the double standard that the government was operating; WSPU prisoners, including untried p ...
prepared a defiant message to be read at the Holland Park Hall meeting. ‘There is talk of negotiation and compromise. No negotia ...
Germany’s declaration of war against France. She listened to the cries of the elderly folk who recollected the Franco-Prussian w ...
Even though suffrage militancy had been suspended with the outbreak of war, Emmeline knew that it was inevitable that, sometime ...
the past, seeing imperialism and militarism as incompatible with feminism when this was not so for many women in the First World ...
standing alone on the vast stage in a dress of pale green, received a tremendous welcome home from the mainly female audience wh ...
The pacifist view was a minority view during the 1914–18 war, and over the next four years it was Emmeline rather than Sylvia wh ...
The next time I came to Plymouth, or tried to come to Plymouth – (laughter) – I was a militant Suffragette, I was a convict – (l ...
their husbands should be serving in the army. ‘It seems to me that the scheme would be practical on the London tramways, too – a ...
those of others pressing for women’s war work came to fruition when, on 18 March 1915, the Board of Trade issued a circular call ...
was withheld from the other British women delegates to board a ship to take them to The Hague. The few British women who did att ...
That June of 1915 was an especially significant and busy month for Emmeline as she spoke at a number of WSPU ‘At Homes’ as well ...
be forgotten – ‘I sometimes wonder in my secret thoughts’, Mrs Ward confided, ‘whether we are not already beaten!’^50 With just ...
By six o’clock, about 60,000 people had assembled in front of the platform built in the gardens of the Ministry of Munitions. Em ...
year to set up a home for fifty illegitimate female children. But, probably more significantly, her long years of experience as ...
attempting to foist on their shoulders what they saw as an ill-conceived venture, printed a leaflet protesting about the way in ...
their patience. We hear of strikes and riots amongst men ... what if women lost patience and began to riot – not for money, not ...
by Crowe, ‘a man of German birth and German associations’. She asked her audience, ‘How can you expect the working people of thi ...
immediately cease’. No name was given of the informant about these matters but on 22 October 1915, WSPU member Rose Lamartine Ya ...
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