Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography
could hold her composure in public as she struggled privately to control the overwhelming heartbreak about Harry’s death that th ...
stroke some years ago, she had recovered enough to lead an active life and to continue following, with the greatest pride, the e ...
claims, trivialises and belittles the contribution of the WSPU leaders to the women’s cause. For Pugh, writing from a masculinis ...
decision was announced in the Commons, five days after the great procession, the WSPU leaders were bitterly disappointed but not ...
hoped, mass support for women’s enfranchisement.^87 Despite her misgivings about the eventual success of the Conciliation Bill, ...
dependent upon the generosity of that network of WSPU members and sympa- thisers who answered Una’s appeal for help with hospita ...
she warned, ‘If the Bill, in spite of our efforts, is killed by the Government, then ... I have to say there is an end to the tr ...
Hardie and Sir Alfred Mond who urged him to receive the deputation. When Emmeline heard that Lord Castlereagh had moved as an am ...
The following day, the two sisters appeared amongst the 159 women and three men defendants at Bow Street Police Court. Emmeline ...
secretary, should not overstep its supportive role in the women’s cause by assuming a leadership role. The Conciliation Committe ...
morning, she went to Sylvia’s studio in Linden Gardens with the sad news; Sylvia had spent her Christmas alone there since she h ...
Adela, the WSPU Organiser for Sheffield, had not been happy in the women’s movement for some time. Although she had not been as ...
How many more women must die before you say ‘the time is now’ ... even now you are not really moved. Still you say ‘patience &am ...
If Emmeline had been ignorant of these developments, the Billington-Greig attack would have opened her eyes and made her more de ...
also bought her a country cottage at Hook Heath, near Woking.^16 Aileen Preston’s family were horrified when they heard about he ...
With Christabel at her side, Emmeline spoke at a large WSPU gathering held at the Albert Hall on 23 March in support of the Seco ...
each other, wondering why we had been so troubled. ... Neither of us ever forgot that dawn.^28 Ethel dressed in a mannish style ...
there was to be a limit to the amount of ‘English zeal’ acceptable to the Irish suffragists.^38 Then she returned to London and, ...
should have their lives made as secure a possible) ... that we ought to go right to the root of the matter and see that those wh ...
tunes of a range of voices. The chauffeur, however, did not join in these musical sessions. ‘I used to wait outside on a little ...
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