Herbert Henry Asquith

EPL led a deputation of suffragists to the House of Commons to press the issue of female suffrage on Prime Minister Asquith , who had neglected the subject in his King's speech at the opening...

Following her split with the WSPU , DM considered joining the Women's Freedom League or the Fabian Society , but instead began to plan for a radical feminist journal that would stimulate discussion of diverse...

EPL led a deputation of more than 200 women to the House of Commons to protest Asquith 's proposed Reform or Manhood Suffrage Bill. On the way some suffragists began breaking windows, ending the militancy truce.

By this date the prospects for female enfranchisement looked more promising than ever before: Parliament was considering the Conciliation Bill, which would allow property-owning women and wives of electors to vote. While the WSPU found...

KOB had been brought up, before the Easter Uprising, to admire Parnell , John Redmond , and Mr Asquith . Now, she says, she gradually learned that she was a lifelong non-fanatic and non-patriot,...

Some of the WSPU 's meetings and parties were held at Hunt's home, South Lodge in Kensington. In her memoir she gleefully recalls introducing Christabel Pankhurst to Mrs Humphry Ward , author and vocal...

MAW persuaded Prime Minister Asquith to reverse his support of women's suffrage; the militant suffrage campaign followed on the realisation of political stalemate that followed.

She later stated that the experience gave us the momentary thrill of being behind the scenes, though, of course, we saw nothing, not even the dumpy, grumpy figure of the Prime Minister .

MK 's marriage to a former secretary for the Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith (1909-1916) solidified her allegiance to the Liberal party, though she never took an active role in it. (Asquith's term was...

The letter challenged a recent antisuffragist manifesto, and stressed three points from Prime Minister Asquith 's statement to suffragists of 14 August. The points were that women had rendered as effective service to their country...

CLtook the plunge, not only of joining the WSPU , but also of volunteering to be one of the next deputation to the Prime Minister (Herbert Henry Asquith ), which would in all...

CL was arrested and imprisoned in Holloway for refusing to be turned back by the police as one of a deputation to the Prime Minister .

EA ’s strength as a writer was in her faculty for criticism. Some of the more prominent novels she reviewed for the Manchester Guardian include George Meredith ’s The Amazing Marriage and Henry James ’s...

IT was writing poetry by the age of ten, exchanging original verses with Nancy Cunard , who went to day-school with her. By twelve she was impressing future Prime Minister Asquith , who had read...

After her release, her account of her continuing campaign both to publicise the suffrage demands and to effect reform of prisons is merged in an account of events on the broader suffrage front: the Conciliation...