Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography
had been diverted into new channels, and the funds contributed for suffrage work had been set aside and not touched for the purp ...
Daughters of the Empire (whose motto was ‘One Flag, one Throne, one Empire’), in Philadelphia, where tea was given in her honour ...
and for her second family. When she returned to England in the summer of 1916 she set about making a home for herself, Catherine ...
heroically sacrificing themselves for the nation.^99 She therefore authorised Commander Bellairs, an MP, to say in the House of ...
concerned that autumn about the war situation in Greece and Romania – and about the spread of VD amongst the troops. The issue o ...
had paid off as many antis recanted their views. The war effort now offered a ‘face-saving reason for owning up to the inevitabl ...
quibbling aside as she thanked Lloyd George, in the name of the WSPU, for dealing with the question of women’s suffrage in a pra ...
believed that industrial unrest was the work of unseen forces, driven by the Germans, the Soviet Bolsheviks and pacifists rather ...
Stories soon came to Emmeline’s ears about massive desertions from the army of one of Britain’s allies, Russia, and of a growing ...
Emmeline acted quickly. She wrote to Lloyd George asking for passports for herself and WSPU colleagues to undertake, as ‘patriot ...
would be granted the parliamentary vote and be an effective force for social reform. Accompanied by Jessie Kenney, Emmeline left ...
Jessie), feminist leaders such as Anna Shabanova, and a flurry of journalists. To the latter, Emmeline clearly stated her missio ...
outraged and dishonoured like the women in France, in Belgium, in Serbia, in Montenegro and other invaded countries.^18 On anoth ...
patriot, arguing for support of the war until victory was won by the Western democracies. Here they enjoyed a Russian high tea o ...
slightly antagonistic towards her. The two conversed in French, through an interpreter, but Kerensky vacillated so that it was d ...
number of the presents they had been given, which they had left behind in order to travel light, had been stolen. ‘We have almos ...
Emmeline arrived back in London in October 1917 ill and exhausted. Her low spirits at the failure of her Russian mission were de ...
sharply that all the windows were barricaded to prevent the children from falling out.^5 Emmeline was now nearly sixty years old ...
pointed out, ‘it is felt that women can best serve the nation by keeping clear of men’s party political machinery and traditions ...
wages, and better conditions for women workers, and, indeed, all workers, and believed the result could be attained by class co- ...
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