Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography
they espoused, they agreed, as Christabel later commented, to forgo the wealth that her father could have made in his legal work ...
Richard’s legal and political work was taking him increasingly to London, where Emmeline now longed to live; the metropolis, the ...
authorities.’^5 Despite the fact that she and Richard were often together only at weekends, they participated in a number of pro ...
Distraught in her grief, Emmeline did not know how to break the news to Richard. Fearing that a telegram would be too much of a ...
curtains and even upholstering furniture. Richard kept apart from all the hustle and bustle, burying himself in his own work. An ...
Englishmen. The visit of Rochefort’s daughter, her old schoolfriend, Noémie, with her three children, brought back happy memorie ...
Holton terms them, led by Richard, tried unsuccessfully to persuade those present that the Society should at least withdraw supp ...
and its first secretary, Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, were old acquaintances of the Pankhursts. Harriet McIlquham, the first cha ...
Emmeline and Richard had deliberately ‘engineered’ the move as part of a plan to re-establish the political career of Sir Charle ...
published Richard’s pamphlet arguing for the abolition of the House of Lords.^47 Some League members found it all too much. Alic ...
the importance of her work. ‘I am glad you are so confidant’, she confided in one letter marked ‘Private’ to Emmeline, ‘I shall ...
the Parliamentary vote, as I believe they will. I venture to assert that the women of the land mean to have the vote, and that a ...
later, haltingly said, ‘Father says I ought to talk to you.’ But the girls were told nothing and the subject was never raised ag ...
spinsters’ and exclude the ‘married women of the country’ and ‘women lodgers’ (who lacked property).^70 On the day, Elizabeth Wo ...
him to the cause of man. ... My father was always very modest as to the value of the political work he did. He preferred to be a ...
The months spent at the sleepy seaside resort of Southport, in a rented furnished apartment, were ‘the most reposeful time’ of E ...
family stayed temporarily at 173 High Street, Oxford Road, Manchester where an Executive Committee meeting of the Women’s Franch ...
working-class origin. The Pankhursts had first met Hardie in 1888, at the International Labour Conference held in London where t ...
and Cheshire Union of the Women’s Liberal Association.^22 Emmeline had never forgiven the Liberal statesman William Ewart Gladst ...
Openshaw. The Manchester Executive of the ILP readily endorsed her candida- ture and accurately predicted that Emmeline would ‘d ...
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