Emmeline Pankhurst

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Standard Name: Pankhurst, Emmeline
Birth Name: Emmeline Goulden
Married Name: Emmeline Pankhurst
EP 's writings, produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, range from published political speeches to autobiography. All concern her lifelong struggle for women's emancipation.
Sepia photograph of Emmeline Pankhurst, seated in a carved high-backed chair. She is wearing a white lacy button-up shirt with a high neck and bow at the collar, tucked into a black skirt with a high waist. She is wearing a long necklace, has short curly hair, and holds a pen in the hand which rests on her lap. Her expression is challenging.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Sylvia Pankhurst
SP published a biography of her mother which, despite the rift between them, is more even-handed than her earlier writings: The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst , The Suffragette Struggle for Women's Citizenship.
“Other New Books: Biography”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1766, 7 Dec. 1935, p. 839.
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Romero, Patricia W. E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical. Yale University Press, 1987.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Ethel Smyth
The March of the Women was published in the year of its composition in ES 's little collection Songs of Sunrise, through the Woman's Press , with an illustration by Margaret Morris . Emmeline Pankhurst
Textual Production Eva Gore-Booth
Other contributors included Millicent Garrett Fawcett , Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst , and Constance Smedley .
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Gawthorpe
She questions the escalation (under the influence of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst in particular) from attacking property to the kind of violence which she feared would lead to attacks on individuals or even to a...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rose Tremain
This book opens by looking back just over a century, when John Stuart Mill presented petitions to parliament on behalf of women's suffrage in 1866 and 1867. It relates the story of the suffragist movement...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ray Strachey
The book starts with an account of Mary Wollstonecraft 's work, and proceeds decade by decade, citing Florence Nightingale , Josephine Butler , John Stuart Mill , Sophia Jex-Blake , and many others. Its heroine...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Muriel Jaeger
MJ 's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb , but also Dugald Stewart and Henry Brougham ), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice against...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Christabel Pankhurst
Written last of the three published Pankhurst accounts of the suffrage struggle, this has been generally accepted as the most objective, couched in a common-sense, matter-of-fact style, but offering a keenly argued, reasoned case for...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Constance Lytton
No intelligent woman, she wrote, could spend time in Holloway Prison without realising that the wreckage of lives seen there resulted not from human frailty only but also from a state of law and public...
Violence Gladys Henrietta Schütze
She worked with Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst , and became a militant suffragette. Like Constance Lytton , she overcame both natural timidity and physical frailty to take part in demonstrations which were often met with...

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