82 Ibid., 23 July 1908, pp. 331–2.
83 Ibid., 27 August 1908, p. 404. Even while on ‘holiday’, Emmeline gave a number of talks
- see VfW, 10 September 1908, pp. 445–6.
84 C. Collette, For labour and for women, the Women’s Labour League, 1906–18(Manchester,
Manchester University Press, 1989), p. 73; D. Neville, To make their mark: the women’s
suffrage movement in the North East of England 1900–1914(Newcastle upon Tyne, North
East Labour History Society, 1997), p. 22.
85 Woman Worker, 25 September 1908.
86 Garner, Stepping stones to women’s liberty, p. 29; Pugh, The march of the women, p. 221; E.
S. Pankhurst, TSM, Chapter 7; E. S. Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, pp. 46–7.
87 See Holton, Suffrage days, especially Chapter 5; J. Hannam and K. Hunt, Socialist women:
Britain, 1880s to 1920s(London and New York, Routledge, 2001); K. Cowman, ‘Incipient
Toryism’? The Women’s Social and Political Union and the Independent Labour Party,
1903–14, History Workshop Journal, 53, 2002.
88 Leneman, A guid cause, p. 52.
89 K. Cowman, ‘The stone-throwing has been forced upon us’: the functions of militancy
within the Liverpool W.S.P.U., 1906–14, Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire
and Cheshire, 145, 1996, p. 177, and her ‘Crossing the great divide’, p. 44. See also
Hannam, ‘I had not been to London’, pp. 233–6.
90 VfW, October 1907, p. 6.
91 Ibid., 10 September 1908, p. 440.
92 Ibid., 24 September 1908.
9 EMMELINE AND CHRISTABEL
(OCTOBER 1908–JANUARY 1909)
1 VfW, 8 October 1908, p. 24.
2 E. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 120.
3 VfW, 15 October 1908, p. 36.
4 Ibid., p. 36.
5 C. Lytton and J. Warton, Spinster, Prisons and prisoners, some personal experiences
(London, William Heinemann, 1914), pp. 20–7.
6 Ibid., pp. 27–8; C. Pankhurst, Unshackled, p. 105.
7 E. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 122.
8 C. Pankhurst, Unshackled, pp. 106–7.
9 VfW, 29 October 1908, p. 69.
10 Evening News, 14 October 1908; Daily News, 26 October 1908; Weekly Dispatch, 25
October 1908; Purvis, Christabel Pankhurst and the Women’s Social and Political Union,
p. 161.
11 Pethick-Lawrence, My part in a changing world, p. 205. See Daily Mirror, 22 October 1908;
Weekly Dispatch Photographic Supplement, 25 October 1908.
12 EP to Miss Robins, 23 October 1908, HRHRC.
13 The speeches from the dock, VfW, 29 October 1908, pp. 77–8. See I. C. Fletcher, ‘A star
chamber of the twentieth century’: suffragettes, Liberals, and the 1908 ‘Rush the
Commons’ case, Journal of British Studies35, 1996, pp. 504–30, for an analysis of the
behind-the-scenes management of public order by the state.
14 Pethick-Lawrence, My part in a changing world, p. 204.
15 See E. A. Accampo, Private life, public image: motherhood and militancy in the self-
construction of Nelly Roussel, 1900–1922, in The new biography, ed. Burr Margadant, pp.
218–61.
16 The speeches from the dock, pp. 81–2.
17 Ibid., p. 82.
18 E. S. Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, p. 81.
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