Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography
reversed their decision.^34 They now sent some of their own members to the City Council, pleading that work should be found for ...
persuading the Guardians to allow the inmates to go for outings in their own clothes rather than the degrading workhouse uniform ...
Emmeline canvassed daily in Gorton, usually accompanied by Christabel and Sylvia, all three taking their meals in the humble, wo ...
ciated with the meeting, she appeared on 12 June looking assured and composed, her long slender fingers clad in black gloves res ...
someone shouted ‘Dr. Pankhurst’, and Emmeline explained how her husband, who had been in the vanguard of the democratic movement ...
In addition to these family worries, Emmeline also had to face increasing financial difficulties. Richard’s prominent role as de ...
Although Emmeline continued with the Poor Law work, even giving a joint paper with another woman Guardian, Mrs. Sale, at the Sep ...
Richard’s health seemed to improve with the country air on the farm in Mobberley and so the whole family returned to their Manch ...
and daughter to leave, Emmeline pleaded to Sylvia, ‘Look after Father!’, a charge that the sixteen-year-old took very seriously ...
Overwhelmed in her grief, Emmeline felt an indescribable loneliness. The tragic look that overcast her face at this sad time nev ...
I cannot write about my loss. You can understand can you not? Will you come & see me soon both of you & the baby dear. H ...
guineas by well-known local figures, such as Alderman Robert Gibson, the Lord Mayor of Manchester, and £1 from Sir Charles Dilke ...
her. Her heart was no longer in public affairs and politics and she had no interest any more in music or in singing.^35 Mary, wh ...
male relative was responsible for her state. There was nothing that could be done in most cases. The age of consent in England i ...
the women, many of whom, in addition to their regular class work, had to teach sewing and domestic subjects, without extra pay. ...
quarterly.’^49 Emmeline felt particularly upset about the manner in which members of the committee, especially the Honorary Secr ...
route via Bruges, Emmeline was like a young woman again, delighting in the smell of the ground coffee, the fresh bread rolls, th ...
my case to the subscribers or the balance must be paid over to me to deal with. After all the money is the children’s & sure ...
Why Mr. Graham acted as he did, Emmeline was unsure but he had wounded her with remarks made at their first meeting. ‘He certain ...
& will continue to do so. ... For the children’s sake I have borne what I would not submit to for my own.^60 Explaining that ...
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