Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography
This was Emmeline’s first imprisonment, the harshness and indignity of which she never forgot. She was ordered to strip – althou ...
Such words were honey to the ears of Christabel and the Pethick Lawrences who were soon planning large demonstrations in the pro ...
through the streets dressed in their prison clothes, or exact reproductions of them, attracting enormous crowds. On the evening ...
mannish and de-sexed. By insisting that suffragettes were womanly, Emmeline was not only showing that women did not have to beco ...
with favours in purple and green. About 40,000 demonstrators marched in the golden sunshine, including Keir Hardie, who walked w ...
reached the House they were informed that Asquith would not receive them. The women returned to Caxton Hall. At eight o’clock th ...
Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, at ‘At Homes’ held every Monday afternoon at the large Queen’s Hall, Langham Place, raising £500 at o ...
movement who wore ‘evening dresses’ at the London At Homes. ‘Is this intended to debar servants, laundresses, &c.? Unless al ...
the woman’s movement.’^91 On 16 September, the colourful breakfast party celebrations were re-enacted as the released prisoners ...
After the long, hot summer of 1908, the cooler days of autumn were a welcome relief to Emmeline as she resolved to form another ...
be found. Emmeline and Christabel had retreated to the roof garden of the Pethick Lawrences’ private flat where, under a blue au ...
trained mind, stated their case, teased out the meaning of the term ‘rush’ and cross-examined the two Cabinet Ministers. The two ...
The following day, the final day of the trial, the three defendants gave their summing-up speeches. Christabel spoke first, clai ...
years, for 16 years, or for the whole of our lives, the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go ...
welcome to do that, but I shall insist on my right to speak to my daughter.’ Another wardress who had left the yard, now returne ...
I am glad after weeks of absence and silence to be able to write to you. ... I have been very ill, but I am better, in good spir ...
chair and officials wore white dresses, Emmeline wore purple, and Christabel, pale green silk. Since the day was known as ‘Chris ...
those women who could not help in any way, even by holding drawing-room meetings or assisting at public meetings in halls, that ...
During 1909 Emmeline’s life continued in a similar pattern to that of previous years, namely touring the country to win converts ...
visited in prison. The two had been close from childhood, and the thought that Mary, who was unhappily married and lived apart f ...
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