42 Minutes of Manchester ILP Central Branch Meeting, 4 September 1906, Manchester
Central Library, Archives Department.
43 John, Elizabeth Robins, p. 144.
44 EP to Miss Robins, 6 October 1906, Elizabeth Robins Papers, Fales Library at the Elmer
Holmes Bobst Library of New York University.
45 Forward(Glasgow), 20 October 1906.
46 E. S. Pankhurst, The suffragette, p. 96, and TSM, p. 221.
47 See Garner, Stepping stones, pp. 44–7 and Liddington and Norris, One hand tied behind us,
p. 207.
48 Daily Mirror, 25 and 26 October 1906.
49 Letter from Millicent Garrett Fawcett, The Times, 27 October 1906.
50 The Times, 29 October 1906.
51 Daily Mirror, 1 November 1906.
52 F. Pethick-Lawrence, Fate has been kind(London, Hutchinson & Co. n.d. [1943]), p. 73.
53 Interview with Jessie Kenney, 2 July 1965, DMC.
54 EP to Miss Robins, 19 November 1906, Elizabeth Robins Papers, Harry Ransom
Humanities Research Center (herafter HRHRC), University of Texas at Austin.
55 E. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 77.
56 LL, 1 February 1907.
57 E. S. Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, pp. 64–5.
58 L. Moore, The woman’s suffrage campaign in the 1907 Aberdeen by-election, Northern
Scotland, 5, 1983, p. 160.
59 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 249. My interpretation here differs but does not exclude that
offered by Holton, Suffrage days, p. 124, who suggests that Emmeline may have argued as
she did primarily as a way of distinguishing her society clearly from the Aberdeen branch
of the NUWSS which, after ‘years of bowing to the anti-suffrage view of the Liberal MP
there’ had at last ‘agreed to take a slightly less supine position. It had persuaded the new
local Liberal candidate to support the parliamentary vote for women municipal voters –
something short both of sexual equality, and of adult suffrage – in return for its support
during his election campaign.’
60 E. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 81.
61 The Timesand Daily Chronicle, 14 February 1907.
62 Daily News, 14 February 1907.
63 EP to Mr. Robinson, 2 March 1907, Hannah Mitchell Papers, Manchester Central
Library.
64 Daily Telegraph, 18 February 1907.
65 The Times, 22 March 1907.
66 E. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 86.
67 C. Pankhurst, Unshackled, p. 79.
68 WSPU, First annual report, including balance sheet and subscription list for the year ending
February 28th, 1907(London, Clement’s Inn, WSPU [1907]).
69 Mrs. Pankhurst’s post, Daily Chronicle, 23 March 1907; Resistrar General to EP, 4 March
1907, Craigie Collection.
70 Labour Record, April 1907; CP to Sylvia, 3 August [1957], Richard Pankhurst Suffrage
Collection, reprinted in R. Pankhurst, Suffragette sisters in old age: unpublished corre-
spondence between Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst, 1953–57, Women’s History Review,
10, 2001, p. 498; Sylvia Pankhurst to Fred Pethick Lawrence, 24 June 1957, P-L Papers.
The issue of a pension for Emmeline Pankhurst was discussed by Emmeline Pethick
Lawrence in a letter to Maud Sennett, 27 March 1907 – ‘I bless you for your generous
thought about the Pankhurst Pension. I have that idea in reserve to discuss with the
Committee. I know how intensely independent our dear leader woman is and how very
delicately such an idea would have to be handled, but it is an idea that has my entire
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