61 CP to Esther Greg, 13 June 1928, Author’s Collection.
62 CP to Esther Greg, 20 June 1928, Author’s Collection.
63 See, for example, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Herald, Manchester Guardianand New
York Herald Tribune, 15 June 1928.
64 Daily News, 18 June 1928.
65 Daily Mail, 19 June 1928.
66 Daily Telegraph, 19 June 1928; The Vote, 22 June 1928, p. 194; Mary Hodgson to David
Mitchell [18 November 1974], DMC; Daily Express, 19 June 1928.
24 NICHE IN HISTORY
1 New York Herald Tribune, Daily Herald, Manchester Guardianand The Times, 15 June 1928.
In contrast, the Daily Telegraphfor this date states that Emmeline Pankhurst was a
‘sincere, but sadly misguided, believer in herself and the cause of which she had made
herself the champion’.
2 Evening Standard, 14 June 1928.
3 Daily News, 14 June 1928.
4 The Times, 16 June 1928.
5 The Mrs. Pankhurst Memorial, leaflet, Author’s Collection.
6 R. Barrett to Mrs. Gordon Bates, 3 January 1929, Author’s Collection.
7 The National Woman’s Party held a memorial meeting for Emmeline in early December
1929, see New York Herald Tribune, 9 December 1929.
8 Coleman, Adela Pankhurst, p. 122; letter from CP to The Times, 22 June 1928.
9 Sylvia Pankhurst to Norah Walshe, n.d., transcript in DMC.
10 R. Strachey, ‘The cause’: a short history of the women’s movement in Great Britain(London,
G. Ball & Sons, 1928), pp. 307–8.
11 K. Dodd, Cultural politics and women’s history writing: the case of Ray Strachey’s ‘The
cause’, Women’s Studies International Forum, 13, 1/2, 1990, p. 131, Special Issue, British
feminist histories, ed. L. Stanley.
12 Everyman, 31 January 1929, p. 14.
13 Emmeline Pethick Lawrence to Sylvia Pankhurst, 17 December 1929, ESPA.
14 David Mitchell interview with Charlotte Drake, 2 September 1965, DMC.
15 Daily Sketch, Daily Mirrorand The Times, 7 March 1930; The Ceremonial Unveiling of the
Statue of Emmeline Pankhurst, leaflet, Author’s Collection; Statue of Mrs. Pankhurst, Mr.
Pethick Lawrence. M.P. at the Unveiling 6th March, 1930, Author’s Collection.
16 Romero, E. Sylvia Pankhurst, p. 175.
17 The Star, 5 March 1930.
18 Manchester Guardian, 6 March 1930; E. Sylvia Pankhurst, Save the mothers(London,
Alfred Knopf, 1930).
19 Emmeline Pethick Lawrence to Sylvia Pankhurst, 26 December 1930, ESPA.
20 Reviews of The suffragette movementby R. Ensor in Everymanand anonymously in The
Times Literary Supplement, 19 February 1931.
21 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 209.
22 Reviews by Emmeline Pethick Lawrence and R. Strachey, New Leaderand The Woman’s
Leader20 February 1931, respectively.
23 A. Pankhurst Walsh, My mother, p. 2.
24 Crawford, The women’s suffrage movement, p. 663, notes that the Suffragette Fellowship
was originally founded as the ‘Suffragette Club’; information given to the author by Jill
Craigie in a telephone conversation 18 September 1998.
25 Letters to the editor by G. Lennox and C. Drake, Everyman, 5 and 19 March 1931, pp.
186 and 249, respectively.
26 Annie Kenney to CP, n.d. c. 1942, DMC.
27 F. Pethick-Lawrence, Preface to Unshackled, by Dame C. Pankhurst.
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