41 VfW Supplement, 20 February 1908, p. lxxviii.
42 E. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 99.
43 Entry 14 February 1908, Mary Blathwayt Diaries, Dryham Park, South Gloucestershire.
44 By an old militant, Notes on Mrs Pankhurst, August 1943, Craigie Collection.
45 E. Pankhurst, My own story, pp. 100–l.
46 Ibid., p. 102.
47 Ibid., pp. 102–3.
48 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 278.
49 E. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 104. Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence in My part in a changing
world, p. 151, claimed that Emmeline Pankhurst could have been ‘a queen on the Stage or
in the Salon. Circumstances had baulked her in the fulfilment of her destiny.’
50 VfW, April 1908, p. 112.
51 Ibid., p. 98.
52 VfW, April, 1908, p. 113.
53 Mrs. Pankhurst, The importance of the vote(London, The Woman’s Press, n.d. [1908]), p.
8.
54 Ibid., p. 12.
55 See D. Riley, ‘Am I that name?’ Feminism and the category of ‘women’ in history
(Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1998), Chapter 3.
56 See Vicinus, Independent women, pp. 263–4 and Mary Jean Corbett, Representing femi-
ninity: middle-class subjectivity in Victorian and Edwardian women’s autobiographies(New
York, Oxford University Press, 1992), p. 154, for discussion of these points, especially in
regard to the stylish, feminine dress of the suffragettes.
57 VfW Supplement, 26 March 1908, ciii; C. Pankhurst, Unshackled, p. 90.
58 Glasgow Herald, 28 March 1908. Fulford, Votes for women, p. 160, claims that WSPU by-
election policy had no ‘real effect’ on election results.
59 E. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 108.
60 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 282; E. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 110.
61 The Times, 22 June 1908; Daily Chronicle, 22 June 1908, gives a figure of 300,000. The
following account is drawn from these sources and also the Daily News.
62 E. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 113.
63 Daily Chronicleand The Times, 22 June 1908.
64 The Times, 24 June 1908.
65 E. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 116.
66 VfW, 4 June 1908, p. 217.
67 Morley and Stanley, Emily Wilding Davison, p. 153.
68 Holton, Suffrage days, p. 134.
69 Pankhurst, My own story, p. 118; Daily Mirror, 1 July 1908.
70 Daily Chronicleand The Times, 2 July 1908.
71 E. Pankhurst, My own story, pp. 118–19. Leneman, A guid cause, p. 64.
72 The Times, 2 July 1908.
73 Pankhurst, My own story, p. 119.
74 Vicinus, Independent women, p. 262; Morley and Stanley, Emily Wilding Davison, pp. xiii
and 153.
75 L. Leneman, A truly national movement: the view from outside London, in The women’s
suffrage movement, eds Joannou and Purvis, pp. 37–30; Hannam, ‘I had not been to
London’, pp. 226–45.
76 VfW, 9 July 1908, p. 290; 23 July 1908, p. 322; 30 July 1908, p. 347.
77 VfW, 25 June and 9 July 1908, pp. 266 and 293, respectively.
78 Entries for 6 and 7 July 1908, Mary Blathwayt Diaries.
79 EP to Professor Ayrton, 4 July 1908, WL.
80 Entry for 6 July 1908, Mary Blathwayt Diaries.
81 VfW, 30 July 1908, p. 349.
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