Emmeline Pankhurst

One conservative point in ER 's outlook at this time was her willingness to allow pressure for equal pay to slacken. As Johanna Alberti comments, Rathbone believed men in the armed forces were making a...

It was apparently MG who began the action, when Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman refused to meet the suffrage deputation and she sprang on one of the sacred velvet chairs, and began to speak.

The women formed this committee (a break-away group from the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage ) after backing Labour candidate David Shackleton in a by-election. In exchange for the support of EGB ...

Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst , Mary Gawthorpe , and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence also spoke at this event.

EPL joined the militant Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) , which Emmeline Pankhurst had founded on 10 October 1903 in Manchester, and which was now run by her eldest daughter, Christabel .

Charges against the women were dropped owing to pressure from the University Chancellor, the Liberal writer and statesman Lord Morley (now a Viscount), whose speech they had interrupted and who was said to be appalled...

EPL and her colleagues from the WSPU , including the PankhurstChristabel Pankhurst s and Kenney , presented their arguments for female enfranchisement to Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman .

EPL spoke at a meeting for female suffrage at Caxton Hall. The leaders of the WSPU , Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst , had been arrested, of their own volition as part of a staged...

NCB kept the salon going through the First World War. In 1917 she organised a meeting of women committed to pacifism which included a gentle, white-haired little woman who turned out to be Mrs [Emmeline] Pankhurst

At the height of the suffrage movement, EPL spoke in connection with the largest procession to date, at the Albert Hall. So did Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst , Annie Kenney , Annie Besant ...

The British government, in an attempt to round up the entire leadership of the WSPU , arrested both EPL and her husband , along with Emmeline Pankhurst , charging them with conspiring to commit damage.

Emmeline Pankhurst , just released from prison under the Cat and Mouse Act because of her fragile condition, needed a place to hold a meeting without being arrested, and GHS 's house was chosen.

EPL and her husband left the WSPU after Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst declared their intention to run an escalated militant campaign.

Later RW became a strong advocate for the suffrage cause through her journalism. To ensure her intellectual independence, she refrained from joining feminist organisations, though she admired feminist activists such as Emmeline Pankhurst and Emily Davison

BH wrote to Christabel Pankhurst (who was in exile in Paris) to protest in the strongest terms against her permitting her mother , and others like Olive Beamish and Lilian Lenton, to damage their...