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 | 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/. |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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 | Stella Benson | SB
had been a moderate until the death of the Derby Martyr, Emily Wilding Davison
, in 1913. After this she became more militant. When she moved to London in May 1914, she called... |
| politics | Beatrice Harraden | If these actions had Christabel's sanction, she wrote, you have lost your way, lost the trail, lost the vision of the distant scene. Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge, 2001. 276 |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | While EPL
was in prison, her husband
took over for her as joint-treasurer of the WSPU. Over the years, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence mediated interactions between the police and the suffragists, and often he was the one... |
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: 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
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...
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.