54 LL, 7 July 1905. Sylvia in her TSM, pp. 184–5, makes no mention of her mother’s work
here, indeed, on p. 182 she states, ‘Keir Hardie’s lone fight for the unemployed received a
measure of encouragement that session; the King’s speech contained a promise of legisla-
tion. In earlier years this would have delighted Mrs. Pankhurst. She dismissed it now with
the observation that when women had won the vote such matters would be dealt with as
a matter of course.’
55 Mrs. Pankhurst, The defeat of the Women’s Bill.
56 Bessie Hatton, A chat with Christabel Pankhurst, LL.B. Sunday Times, 8 March 1908.
57 See K. Hardie, Women and politics, in The case for women’s suffrage, ed. B. Villers
(London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1907), p. 79, and, more recently, Holton, From anti-slavery to
suffrage militancy; Mayhall, Defining militancy; J. Lawrence, Contesting the male polity:
the suffragettes and the politics of disruption in Edwardian Britain, in Women, privilege
and power: British politics, 1750 to the present, ed. A. Vickery (Stanford, California,
Stanford University Press, 2001).
58 TBG Papers, Plan period of study & teaching record.
59 C. Pankhurst, Unshackled, p. 50.
60 E. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 49.
61 E. Sharp, Emmeline Pankhurst and militant suffrage, Nineteenth Century, April 1930, pp.
518–19.
62 Manchester Evening News, 16 October 1905.
63 Kenney, Memories, p. 41.
64 LL, 27 October 1905; Kenney, Memories, p. 42.
65 Marcus, Introduction, p. 9; Rosen, Rise up women!, p. 55.
66 E. Pankhurst, My own story, p. 50.
67 E. S. Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, p. 47.
68 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 192.
69 Interview with Grace Roe, 22 September 1975, DMC; letter from CP to Helen Lady
Pethick-Lawrence, 19 April 1957, Craigie Collection.
70 C. Pankhurst, Unshackled, pp. 228–9.
71 Ibid., p. 239.
72 Ibid., p. 262.
73 Harrison, Two models of feminist leadership, pp. 32–3, claims that ‘Mother ... deferred to
daughter on short-term strategy, crediting her with political genius and tolerating no criti-
cism of her; daughter deferred to mother on long-term objectives, while ruthlessly
exploiting her mother’s talents for the cause.’
74 C. Pankhurst,Unshackled, speaks of decision-making as being shared between her and her
mother, frequently referring to ‘Mother and I’ – see, for example, pp. 43, 229.
75 Smyth, Female pipings, p. 202.
76 Kenney, Memories, p. 56.
77 LL, 3 and 17 November 1905.
78 LL, 22 December 1905.
79 LL, 15 December 1907; M. Gawthorpe, Up hill to Holloway(Penobscot, Maine, Traversity
Press, 1962), p. 207.
80 Fulford, Votes for women, p. 132; Benn, Keir Hardie, p. 208.
81 C. Pankhurst, Unshackled, p. 61.
82 Ibid., p. 61.
83 Kenney, Memories, pp. 58–61.
7 TO LONDON
(FEBRUARY 1906–JUNE 1907)
1 Kenney, Memories, p. 59; E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 197. Montefiore, From a Victorian to a
modern, pp. 50–1 questioned this version of events, first printed in an article by Sylvia inNOTES