18 Britannia, 10 August 1917, p. 77.
19 T. Larsen, Christabel Pankhurst: fundamentalism and feminism in coalition (Woodbridge,
Suffolk, Boydell Press, 2002).
20 Entry for 22 July [1917], Kenney, Russian diary.
21 J. Kenney, Miscellaneous notes, Kenney Papers, KP/5.
22 Dorr, A woman of fifty, p. 362.
23 Ibid., p. 359.
24 Britannia, 13 July 1917, p. 44.
25 Entry for 3 August 1917, Kenney, Russian diary, although elsewhere Jessie gives 1 August
as the date they met Kerensky.
26 Mitchell, Women on the warpath, p. 69.
27 Entry for 3 September 1917, Kenney, Russian diary.
21 LEADER OF THE WOMEN’S PARTY
(NOVEMBER 1917–JUNE 1919)
1 Coleman, Adela Pankhurst, pp. 79–81.
2 Adela Pankhurst to Sylvia Pankhurst, 23 November 1917, ESPA.
3 Coleman, Adela Pankhurst, pp. 80–1.
4 Jessie Kenney Papers, DMC; Mitchell, Queen Christabel, p. 263.
5 Smyth, Female pipings, p. 243.
6 Britannia, 21 December 1917, p. 227.
7 Sunday Chronicleand Sunday Herald, 11 November 1917.
8 Quoted in C. Law, Suffrage and power: the women’s movement, 1918–1928(London,
Tauris, 1997), pp. 44–5.
9 The Women’s Party(London, The Women’s Party, n.d.), p. 1.
10 Britannia, 23 November 1917, p. 196.
11 Ibid., 2 November 1917, pp. 171–2.
12 Ibid., 25 January 1918, p. 260.
13 Ibid., 11 January 1918, front page.
14 Garner, Stepping stones, p. 58; B. Campbell, The iron ladies: why do women vote Tory?
(London, Virago, 1987), p. 56.
15 Pugh, Women and the women’s movement, p. 44; E. S. Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, p.
163.
16 E. C. Dubois, Woman suffrage and the left: an international socialist-feminist perspective,
in her Woman suffrage and women’s rights(New York, New York University Press, 1998),
pp. 272–3. A version of this chapter was originally published in New Left Review, 186,
1991.
17 E. S. Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, p. 163.
18 Rowbotham, Hidden from history, p. 117; Garner, Stepping stones, pp. 56–9; Pugh, Women
and the women’s movement, pp. 44–5; Pugh, The march of the women, p. 221; Pugh, The
Pankhursts, p. 540. Pugh, The Pankhursts, p. 342, even makes the outrageous statement
that by 1917, Christabel, through her work for the Women’s Party, ‘was on the high road
that leads to fascism’.
19 Britannia, 1 March 1918, p. 341.
20 Dangers on the home front, Mrs. Pankhurst’s tilt with the pacifists, Liverpool Post, 7
February 1918.
21 E. S. Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, pp. 164–5; Liverpool Post, 7 February 1918; Britannia,
8 February 1918, pp. 291, 302.
22 Britannia, 25 January 1918, p. 260.
23 War till victory, Mrs. Pankhurst on the danger at home, Liverpool Courier, 7 February
1918.
24 Britannia, 16 November 1917, pp. 187 and 192.
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