Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion, 1976.
prelims
Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence
Standard Name: Pethick-Lawrence, Frederick William
Used Form: F. W. Pethick-Lawrence
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Dedications | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | She dedicated it to Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence
my husband and in the many changes of life my unchanging comrade and my best friend. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Over the course of his lifetime, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
served in the House of Commons
for eighteen years and in the House of Lords
for sixteen. He became the Secretary of State for India and for... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Emmeline Pethick
's close friend Mark Guy Pearse
officiated at her wedding to Frederick Lawrence
at the Town Hall in Canning Town. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion, 1976. 107, 124 Brittain, Vera. Pethick-Lawrence: A Portrait. George Allen and Unwin, 1963. 30 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
greatly admired Mark Guy Pearse
, an evangelical Christian socialist who co-founded the West London Mission
. She had known him since her childhood, and he became a second father to her. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | Others with whom she shared this or that memorable experience were the Meynells (Wilfrid
, Alice
, and Viola
), Clarence Rook
and his wife, and Henry W. Nevinson
, whom she eventually married... |
| Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | Some of the friends with whom she remained in contact into her final years were Eleanor Farjeon
, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
, and Elizabeth Robinson
. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press, 2009. 224-5 |
| Friends, Associates | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | During her stay in India, EPL
met the poet Rabindranath Tagore
. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion, 1976. 338 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Gawthorpe | During her time with the WSPU, MG
worked with Christabel Pankhurst
(who was twenty-four when Gawthorpe first met her, before she had yet met Isabella Ford
), whom, like Ethel Snowden
, she knew from... |
| Literary responses | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
's involvement in the militant suffrage movement was necessarily controversial: contemporaries both lauded and reviled her. In her diary Virginia Woolf
described EPL
's style of public speaking in 1918 with some disdain. I... |
| Occupation | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
stayed with the WSPU, which, after the split, composed a pledge which all members had to sign: I endorse the objects and methods of the Women's Social and Political Union
and hereby undertake not... |
| Occupation | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
attended the Woman's Sunday mass suffrage demonstration in Hyde Park that she and her husband
had organised; by her reckoning upwards of 250,000 supporters marched in seven processions through the park. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion, 1976. 183 Brittain, Vera. Pethick-Lawrence: A Portrait. George Allen and Unwin, 1963. 43 |
| Performance of text | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | In 1913 the Woman's Press
published speeches by the accused at the trial of EPL
, her husband
, and Emmeline Pankhurst
in 1912, when all three were charged with conspiring to cause harm. The... |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
went to prison at least five more times over the course of her fight for female suffrage. She did not suffer from claustrophobia or anxiety in later imprisonments; on the contrary, at times she... |
| politics | Evelyn Sharp | She later wrote that she was less able to endure her two weeks in prison with equanimity than were most of the more than three hundred suffragists arrested with her. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933. 140-3 |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The police refused to allow her to enter the House, and since she then refused to leave they arrested her. In her autobiography she describes the process of arresting suffragists as routine: she and the... |
Timeline
: The Women's Social and Political Union moved...
National or international item
Summer 1906
The Women's Social and Political Union
moved its headquarters to London; this relocation was emblematic of its shift away from its Independent Labour Party
and working-class origins.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. “Women and the Vote”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis and June Purvis, University College London, 1995, pp. 277-05.
291
Garner, Les. Stepping Stones to Women’s Liberty: Feminist Ideas in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1900-1918. Heinemann Educational, 1984.
45
October 1907: Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and Emmeline...
National or international item
October 1907
Emmeline
and Christabel Pankhurst
and Emmeline
and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
, wanting to maintain control over the Women's Social and Political Union
agenda, removed by fiat dissident members of the executive and cancelled the forthcoming annual...
October 1907: Votes for Women, the official organ of the...
Building item
October 1907
Votes for Women, the official organ of the Women's Social and Political Union
, began publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
25
King, Elspeth. “The Scottish Women’s Suffrage Movement”. Out of Bounds: Women in Scottish Society 1800-1945, edited by Esther Breitenbach and Eleanor Gordon, Edinburgh University Press, 1992, pp. 121-50.
139
28 March 1912: The Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) was defeated...
National or international item
28 March 1912
The Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) was defeated in a House of Commons
vote, after passing its second reading (the previous year) with a huge majority.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. “Women and the Vote”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis and June Purvis, University College London, 1995, pp. 277-05.
294
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
133
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
135
Frye, Kate Parry. Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary. Editor Crawford, Elizabeth, Francis Boutle Publishers, 2013.
98-100
6 February 1914: The United Suffragists was established as...
National or international item
6 February 1914
The United Suffragists
was established as a new organisation open to men and women, militant and non-militant members.
Norquay, Glenda. Voices and Votes: A Literary Anthology of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign. Manchester University Press, 1995.
xii
Holton, Sandra Stanley. “Women and the Vote”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis and June Purvis, University College London, 1995, pp. 277-05.
295
John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press, 2009.
76
February 1918: Votes for Women, an organ of the Women's...
Building item
February 1918
Votes for Women, an organ of the Women's Social and Political Union
, ceased publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
25
6 July 1928: Four days after the Representation of the...
Building item
6 July 1928
Four days after the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act received the royal assent, a celebratory breakfast was held at the Hotel Cecil in London.
“July 6, 1928, Celebrating full women’s suffrage”. Guardian Weekly, 6 July 2007, p. 20.
20
Texts
Pankhurst, Christabel. Unshackled: The Story of How We Won the Vote. Editor Pethick-Lawrence, Frederick William, Hutchinson, 1959.
Pethick-Lawrence, Frederick William, and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, editors. Votes for Women. Reformer’s Press.