11 Moyes, A woman in a man’s world, p. 30.
12 EP to Mr. Scott, 17 February 1909, Scott Papers.
13 H. Gladstone to Scott, 19 February 1909, Scott Papers.
14 Helen Watts to Mother & Father & all, 24 February 1909, photocopies of Helen Watts
Papers, Nottinghamshire County Record Office.
15 VfW, 5 March 1909, pp. 406–7.
16 Ibid., 12 March 1909, pp. 434 and 436.
17 Ibid., 19 March 1909, pp. 445, 448, 452, 454.
18 EP to Mr. Scott, 8 and 11 March 1909, Scott Papers.
19 VfW, 26 March 1909, p. 476.
20 Ibid., 2 April 1909, pp. 506–7
21 E. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 137.
22 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 306.
23 EP to Dr. Mills, 1 April 1909, WL.
24 Untitled paper about Sylvia Pankhurst, Teresa Billington-Greig Papers, Box 3987,
THG2/B4/1.
25 EP to Dr. Mills, 7 May 1909, WL.
26 Quoted p. 147 of C. Pankhurst, Unshackled.
27 VfW, 9 April 1909, p. 533.
28 Ibid., 23 April 1909, pp. 567 and 574.
29 Quoted in Tickner, The spectacle of women, p. 211.
30 See EP to Miss Carwin, 24 September 1909, SFC, ‘Women have reason to be grateful that
you & others have the courage to play a soldier’s part in the war we are waging for the
political freedom of women.’
31 VfW, 29 April 1909, p. 565. This newspaper had been formally handed over to the
WSPU by the Pethick Lawrences in January 1909. For further discussion of some interna-
tional aspects of the women’s movement see Evans, The feminists, especially Chapter 4; L.
J. Rupp, Worlds of women, the making of an international women’s movement(New Jersey,
Princeton University Press, 1997); I. C. Fletcher, L. E. N. Mayhall and P. Levine (eds),
Women’s suffrage in the British Empire: citizenship, nation, and race(London and New York,
Routledge, 2000).
32 M. Bosch with A. Kloosterman (eds),Politics and friendship, letters from the International
Woman Suffrage Alliance 1902–1942(Columbus, Ohio State University, 1990), p. 45.
33 Rupp, Worlds of women, p. 137.
34 VfW, 7 May 1909, pp. 633–4.
35 Bosch and Kloosterman (eds), Politics and friendship, pp. 83–4.
36 VfW, 7 May 1909, p. 633.
37 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 304.
38 VfW, 14 May 1909, pp. 659 and 667.
39 National Women’s Social & Political Union, The women’s exhibition 1909 programme
(London, The Woman’s Press, n.d.); VfW, 21 May 1909, pp. 689–90.
40 Crawford, The women’s suffrage movement, p. 506.
41 Interview with Teresa Billington-Greig, 12 September 1964, DMC.
42 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 306.
43 M. Richardson, Laugh a defiance(London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1953), p. 1.
44 VfW, 4 June 1909, p. 757.
45 Sylvia’s claim in her TSM, p. 306, that Emmeline brushed aside Dr. Mills’ advice that
Harry should not return to the farm, on the grounds that he was too delicate to endure
the exposure and hard toil of farm life, must be questioned. As we have seen, Emmeline,
in her letter of 1 April 1909, sought the advice of Dr. Mills and was unlikely to have
acted against it. Sylvia presents Emmeline as a neglectful mother, implying that her lack
of concern for her son eventually led to his death.
46 VfW, 18 and 25 June 1909, pp. 810 and 843, respectively
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