47 EP to Elizabeth Robins, 23 June 1909, Robins Papers, HRHRC.
48 VfW, 25 June 1909, p. 844.
49 Ibid., 2 July 1909, p. 872.
50 E. Pankhurst, My own story, pp. 138–9; VfW, 2 July 1909, p. 887; F. A. Bather, Men’s
Committee for Justice to Women, to Keir Hardie, 2 July 1909, Author’s Collection.
51 Daily News, 30 June 1909.
52 E. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 141.
53 Daily Chronicle, 30 June 1909.
54 Letters of Constance Lytton, Selected and arranged by Betty Balfour(London, William
Heinemann, 1925), p. 168.
55 VfW, 16 July 1909, p. 948
56 VfW, 9 July 1909, p. 920.
57 Ibid., 2 and 16 July 1909, pp. 876–9 and 935–42, respectively, and 3 December 1909, pp.
145, 147–9.
58 Ibid., 3 December 1909, p. 145.
59 E. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 148.
60 Ibid., p. 149.
61 VfW, 16 July 1909, p. 934.
62 Ibid., 23 July 1909, pp. 971–2.
63 EP to Mr. Scott, 17 and 21 July 1909, Scott Papers.
64 Entry for 21 July 1909, Bruce Glasier Diaries.
65 VfW, 30 July 1909, pp. 1,004–5.
66 See VfW, 20 August 1909, p. 1,085, from where the majority of these quotes are taken in
relation to the Prime Minister’s meeting at Bletchley on 13 August.
67 Ibid., 27 August 1909, p. 1,110.
68 Ibid., 27 August and 3 September 1909, pp. 1,109–20 and 1123, respectively.
69 EP to Elizabeth Robins, 28 August 1909, Robins Papers, HRHRC.
70 VfW, 24 September 1909, pp. 1,206–10; Dundee Advertiser, 20 September 1909; The
Times, 23 September 1909.
71 Daily News, 25 September 1909.
72 The Times, 21 September 1909; VfW, 24 September 1909, p. 1,205.
73 See J. Purvis, The prison experiences of the suffragettes in Edwardian Britain, Women’s
History Review, 4, 3, 1995, pp. 103–33; C. J. Howlett, Writing on the body?
Representation and resistance in British suffragette accounts of forcible feeding, Genders,
23, 1996, pp. 3–41.
74 Tickner, The spectacle of women, p. 107.
75 Letter in The Times, 29 September 1909.
76 VfW, 1 October 1909, p. 4.
11 PERSONAL SORROW AND FORTITUDE
(SEPTEMBER 1909–EARLY JANUARY 1911)
1 VfW, 1 October 1909, pp. 1 and 4; E. Pankhurst, My own story, pp. 156–7.
2 E. Pankhurst, The fiery cross, VfW, 1 October 1909, p. 8.
3 VfW, 8 October 1909, p. 19; The Times, 5 October 1909.
4 EP to Mr. Nevinson, 4 October 1909, Evelyn Sharp Nevinson Papers, Bodleian Library,
Oxford.
5 Rosen, Rise up women!, p. 124; Myall, ‘No surrender!’, p. 178.
6 C. Pankhurst, Unshackled, pp. 146–7.
7 Dubois, Harriot Stanton Blatch, p. 94. Dubois notes that the focus of the Equality League
on working women distinguished it from the many other suffrage societies at that time
in New York City.
8 Ibid., p. 95.NOTES