approval and sympathy and I hope will develop into a scheme worthy of the woman’,
Maud Arncliffe Sennett Collection (hereafter MASC), British Library, c121g1, Vol. 1.
71 EP to Mr. Robinson, 2 March and 28 February 1907, Hannah Mitchell Papers.
72 Independent Labour Party, Report of the fifteenth annual conference, Temperance Hall,
Derby, April 1st and 2nd 1907(London, Independent Labour Party, May 1907), p. 48; LL,
5 April 1907.
73 EP to Helen Fraser [Moyes], 3 April 1907, SFC.
74 CP to Miss Robins, Robins Papers, Fales Library.
75 EP to Miss Phillips, 19 April 1907, Watt Collection, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum.
76 Sylvia Pankhurst to Lord Pethick Lawrence [early July 1959], P-L Papers. Emmeline’s
papers were kept by her sister, Ada.
77 Ramsay MacDonald to Bruce Glasier, 3 May 1907, Bruce Glasier Papers; Frank Smith to
MacDonald, 30 April 1907, J. Ramsay MacDonald Papers, Public Record Office.
78 Entry for 26 November 1913, Bruce Glasier Diaries. This is misquoted in both Morgan,
Keir Hardie, p. 164, and Benn, Keir Hardie, pp. 225–6.
79 B. K. Scott (ed.), Selected letters of Rebecca West(New Haven and London, Yale
University Press, 2000), p. 461.
80 Romero, E. S. Pankhurst, p. 37, although on p. 50 it is claimed that the love affair began
in 1908!
81 Ibid., p. 37.
82 Benn, Keir Hardie, p. 226, favours this explanation; Morgan, Keir Hardie, p. 164, suggests
that there was no substance to the rumours of an affair.
83 E. Pankhurst, The present position of the women’s suffrage movement, in The case for
women’s suffrage, ed. Villiers, p. 49.
8 AUTOCRAT OF THE WSPU?
(JULY 1907–SEPTEMBER 1908)
1 Lily Bell, The woman’s movement and democracy, and Mary Phillips, Woman’s point of
view, Forward, 2 November 1907; T. Billington-Greig, The difference in the women’s
movement, Forward, 23 November 1907; Rosen, Rise up women!, pp. 88–9; Holton,
Feminism and democracy, pp. 41–2; P. Bartley, Votes for women 1860–1928(London,
Hodder & Stoughton, 1998), p. 35.
2 EP to Mr. Robinson, 22 June 1907, Hannah Mitchell Papers; EP to Sylvia, 22 June 1907,
ESPA.
3 EP to Mr. Robinson, 15 August 1907, Hannah Mitchell Papers.
4 C. Pankhurst, Unshackled, p. 82; CP to Lord Pethick-Lawrence, 25 May 1957, P-L Papers;
Sylvia Pankhurst to CP, 10 July 1957, Craigie Collection.
5 Edith How Martyn, undated, New members who are unacquainted with the history and
development of the ‘militant’ movement for Women’s Suffrage, Maude Arncliffe Sennett
Collection, C121g1 Vol. 7; undated paper beginning ‘The Women’s Social and Political
Union’, SFC, Z6070 (27); Morning Post, 13 September 1907; E. S. Pankhurst, Emmeline
Pankhurst, p. 70. See E. Pethick-Lawrence, My part in a changing world, p. 176, for a
different account where she does not mention that she urged Emmeline Pankhurst to take
such steps but suggests, instead, that the WSPU leader made these decisions on her own.
My interpretation of these events also differs from the account given by Harrison, Two
models of feminist leadership, pp. 40–1, where he relies solely upon this source. In 1912,
Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst expelled the Pethick Lawrences from the WSPU and
these events undoubtedly helped to shape the content of My part in a changing world.
6 For accounts of the Women’s Freedom League see C. Eustance, ‘Daring to be free’: the
evolution of women’s political identities in the Women’s Freedom League 1907–1930,
D.Phil. thesis, University of York, 1993; H. Francis, ‘ ... Our job is to free women ... ’, the
sexual politics of four Edwardian feminists from c.1910 to c.1935, D.Phil. thesis,NOTES