Emmeline Pankhurst

It was then decribed as Smyth's most obviously feminist opera, whose feisty heroine—supposedly based on Emmeline Pankhurst , a rich widow resolved against re-marrying, outwits her suitors in a series of entertaining and resourceful deceptions...

Hamilton focuses primarily on her professional life and politics, with few personal details. In her chapter on suffrage, Women on the Warpath, she aligns herself with the non-militant, constitutional suffragists, and denounces the militant...

Again contemporary documents in facsimile accompany explanatory broadsheets (on the suffrage campaign itself and contextual subjects beginning with The Prison House of Home) and an illustrated timeline, Women in Revolt, running from 1743...

Here MS writes grippingly of her own life, and illuminatingly about myriad subjects of public or cultural interest: the lives, customs, and deaths of newspapers, the conspiracy of silence about sex which had not dissipated...

The novel's other main characters, Mary Thane and Stephen Lattimer, are, like Starridge, writers. One of the novel's focal points is the woman writer's changing role. Mary Thane, a prominent novelist, wants to stop writing...

At the rally Marsden appeared on the Union platform, along with Emmeline and Adela Pankhurst , Flora Drummond , Mary Gawthorpe , and Rona Robinson . Marsden 's suffrage work was also regularly reported in...

The following year, however, SP demonstrated diligent care for her mother's reputation: she was outraged by one paragraph in Ray Strachey 's The Cause. Though it expressed gratitude and admiration for Emmeline Pankhurst ...

This protest was one of many forms of resistance the WSPU advocated in order to put pressure on the government to give women the vote. Women were also encouraged to withhold their taxes. Leaders of...

In 1933 RW wrote an essay about Emmeline Pankhurst for The Post-Victorians. She also wrote essays about Charlotte Brontë , for The Great Victorians (1932), and Elizabeth Montagu , for From Anne to Victoria (1937).

Nonetheless, several of her plays have never (in 2008) been staged. One is Wild Diamonds, set in South Africa and seen through the eyes of Olive Schreiner and Cecil Rhodes, which was commissioned...

For the same company she also co-wrote with SydneyStreet Corner, released in April 1953, a film about policewomen. She directed it herself. While working on Street Corner she found herself—as a woman...

ES published her memoir, My Own Story (a title already and more famously used by Emmeline Pankhurst ).

At first the journal appeared monthly for threepence an issue, but within six months it began appearing weekly for a penny an issue. Its circulation reached 30,000 by 1909, and much of its profits came...

After her mother 's death, CP considered bringing out a revised edition of her autobiography, My Own Story, but she decided not to do this after all.

ES 's Female Pipings in Eden, a volume of collected essays, included a memoir of Emmeline Pankhurst , whom she considered more astounding than Joan of Arc .