43 C. Pankhurst, Unshackled, p. 21.
44 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 31. See S. S. Holton, Free love and Victorian feminism: the
divers matrimonials of Elizabeth Wolstenholme and Ben Elmy, Victorian Studies, Winter,
1994, pp. 199–222.
45 Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Mrs. Elmy, 10 December [1875], copy in the Women’s
Library (hereafter WL), formerly the Fawcett Library, London Guildhall University.
46 C. Pankhurst, Unshackled, p. 22.
47 Ibid., p. 21.
48 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 57.
49 Ibid., p. 57.
2 MARRIAGE AND ENTRY INTO POLITICAL LIFE
(1880–MARCH 1887)
1 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 57; E. S. Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, p. 18.
2 Women’s Suffrage Journal, 1 March 1880, p. 50.
3 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 97; Holton, Suffrage days, p. 35.
4 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 57.
5 C. Pankhurst, Unshackled, p. 21.
6 Ibid., p. 23.
7 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 57.
8 J. Lewis, Women in England 1870–1950: sexual divisions and social change(Brighton and
Bloomington, Wheatsheaf Books, 1984), p. 117; K. Gleadle, British women in the nine-
teenth century(Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001), p. 180.
9 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 58.
10 E. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 13.
11 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 60.
12 Ibid., pp. 60–1.
13 Ibid., p. 64.
14 See Holton, Suffrage days, p. 39; S. A. van Wingerden, The women’s suffrage movement in
Britain, 1866–1928(Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1999), pp. 35–7.
15 Some of the letters preserved inLydia Becker’s Letter Book(letters sent in a personal
capacity, as Honorary Treasurer of the Manchester Committee for the Married Women’s
Property Bill, but mostly as Secretary of the Manchester National Society for Women’s
Suffrage, Manchester Central Library, Manchester, UK, M50/1/3), from Lydia Becker to
Richard Pankhurst sound almost flirtatious. The letter 20 June 1868 to ‘My dear Dr.
Pankhurst’, for example, states: ‘I think you are quite right. It is an important crisis, and I
am prepared to do and dare everything!’ The letter 7 June [1868] to Sarah Jackson,
speaks of Dr. Pankhurst as ‘a very clever little man – with some most extraordinary senti-
ments about life in general – and women in particular – and so much to say on them,
that it is really dangerous to venture into his den – I called at his chambers on Friday to
give him a paper & intended to stay five minutes, & found it impossible to escape under
two hours!’
16 Women’s Suffrage Journal, 1 October 1883, p. 179; E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 64.
17 C. Pankhurst, Unshackled, p. 27.
18 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, pp. 65–6.
19 E. S. Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, pp. 18–19.
20 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 68.
21 Ibid., p. 67.
22 E. S. Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, p. 19.
23 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 68.
24 Ibid., p. 71.
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