10 Report of the Executive Committee of the MNSWS, presented at the Annual General
Meeting, 20 November 1894 (Manchester, ‘Guardian’ General Printing Works, 1894), p.
- Liddington and Norris, One hand tied behind us, p. 167, assert that this was ‘an isolated
event’ for Emmeline Pankhurst, who had taken ‘little interest in women’s suffrage’ in the
1890s, a claim that cannot be substantiated.
11 Ursula Bright to EP, 30 May 1894, ESPA.
12 Ursula Bright to EP, 1 and 15 June 1894, ESPA.
13 C. Benn, Keir Hardie(London, Hutchinson, 1992), p. 65; see also K. O. Morgan, Keir
Hardie: radical and socialist(London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1975).
14 Labour Leader(LL), 7 July 1894.
15 Ursula Bright to EP, 10 July 1894, ESPA.
16 C. Pankhurst, Unshackled, p. 32.
17 Ibid., p. 32; E. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 35.
18 Ursula Bright to EP, 10 July 1894, ESPA.
19 R. Anderson to Dear Comrade, 20 July 1894, ESPA; Manchester Guardian, 25 July 1894.
20 H. S. B. [Harriot Stanton Blatch] to EP, 25 July [1894], ESPA.
21 LL, 24 November 1894.
22 Mrs. Newton of the Lancashire and Cheshire Union to EP, 19 September 1894, ESPA.
23 E. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 15.
24 Sylvia Pankhurst in TSM, p. 119, plays down this fact – ‘On July 20th Mrs. Pankhurst was
unanimously adopted as I.L.P. candidate for the Manchester School Board, though it was
not until September that Dr. Pankhurst’s letter declaring his decision to join the
Independent Labour Party appeared in the Press.’
25 C. Pankhurst, Unshackled, p. 32.
26 LL, 15 September 1894.
27 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 120.
28 Ibid., pp. 120–1.
29 Mrs. Pankhurst, LL, 4 July 1896.
30 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, pp. 124–5.
31 LL, 8 December 1894.
32 E. S. Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, pp. 34–5; E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, pp. 129–30.
33 LL, 22 December 1894.
34 E. S. Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, p. 35.
35 E. S. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 24.
36 Ibid., p. 24.
37 Ibid., p. 27.
38 E. S. Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, p. 36. Hollis, Ladies elect, p. ix, notes, ‘On the whole,
elected local government women were less authoritarian, less censorious, and more
respectful of the views of the poor than their male colleagues, both elected members and
officers alike.’
39 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 132.
40 E. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 24; LL, 1 June 1895.
41 E. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 25.
42 Ibid., p. 28.
43 E. S. Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, p. 37.
44 Ibid., pp. 37–8; E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, pp. 133–4.
45 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 133; Morgan, Keir Hardie, Chapter 4.
46 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 134.
47 Ibid., p. 135.
48 See Benn, Keir Hardie, Chapter 6.
49 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, pp. 135–6.
50 Ibid., p. 136.
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