19 S. Pankhurst, Women’s fight for the vote, Weekly Dispatch, 1 November 1908.
20 ‘General’ Drummond, The story of my third imprisonment, VfW, 12 November 1908, p.
108.
21 E. Pankhurst, My own story, pp. 132–3.
22 Ibid., p. 133.
23 VfW, 12 November 1908, pp. 107 and 109.
24 Keir Hardie to Dear Friend [EP], 7 November 1908, Viscount Gladstone Papers, BL Add
46066; Lady Frances Balfour to Mrs. Fawcett, 11 November 1908, WL; The Times, 14
November 1908.
25 VfW, 26 November 1908, p. 155.
26 Ibid., p. 148. The letter was also reproduced in some of the newspapers, e.g. Daily
Chronicle, 24 November 1908.
27 Kathleen Brown to Una Dugdale, 6 January 1909, Author’s Collection.
28 Sylvia Pankhurst to Mr. Scott, Editor of the Manchester Guardian, 11 December 1908,
Scott Papers, Manchester GuardianArchive, John Rylands University Library, University
of Manchester. I have found no evidence to support Sylvia’s later claim in her TSM, p.
292, that through her efforts, C. P. Scott, the powerful Liberal editor of the Manchester
Guardian, said to have the ear of the Liberal Party leadership, visited Emmeline in
Holloway – see EP to Scott, 7 January 1909, Scott Papers. Further, on p. 292, Sylvia
claims that it was Scott who procured the concession in regard to newspapers, thus
contradicting her earlier statement in her letter of 11 December that it was Keir Hardie.
29 Sylvia Pankhurst to Mr. Scott, 11 December 1908, Scott Papers; Sylvia Pankhurst to Miss
Robins, 26 November 1908, HRHRC.
30 Holton, Suffrage days, p. 169.
31 Constance Lytton to Mr. Gladstone, 21 December 1908, Viscount Gladstone Papers.
32 VfW, 24 December 1908, p. 217.
33 Daily News, 23 December 1908.
34 VfW, 31 December 1908, p. 230.
35 Ibid., p. 230.
36 E. Pankhurst, March on! VfW, 31 December 1908, p. 232.
37 Ibid., p. 232.
38 VfW, 21 January 1908, p. 276.
39 Ibid., pp. 276–8.
40 EP to Miss Robins, 16 January 1909, HRHRC.
41 Z. Procter, Life and yesterday(Kensington, Favil Press, 1960), p. 95.
42 Forward, 2 January 1909.
10 ‘A NEW AND MORE HEROIC PLANE’
(JANUARY–SEPTEMBER 1909)
1 The phrase is used in E. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 149, to refer to the hunger strike
adopted by the imprisoned suffragettes, and the forcible feeding inflicted on them by the
government.
2 Ibid., p. 136.
3 E. S. Pankhurst, The suffragette, p. 360.
4 VfW4 February 1909, pp. 305 and 311.
5 Ibid., 28 January and 4 February 1909, pp. 289 and 306, respectively.
6 EP to Mr. Scott, 7 February 1909, Scott Papers.
7 H. Gladstone to Scott, 9 February 1909, Scott Papers.
8 EP to Mr. Scott, 12 February 1909, Scott Papers.
9 VfW, 18 February 1909, p. 358.
10 Ibid., p. 359. Sylvia had travelled to Aberdeen in January, with instructions to put the
local WSPU in order ready for the arrival of its organiser, Ada Flatman.
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