June Purvis

Standard Name: Purvis, June

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Emmeline Pankhurst
She intended to spearhead a campaign to provide a better start in life for the illegitimate children of soldiers and reluctant mothers. (Ethel Smyth tried to dissuade her, took it philosophically when she was...
Family and Intimate relationships Emmeline Pankhurst
By 1913, EP had moved to live with composer Ethel Smyth at her cottage in Woking. The latter hints at a sexual relationship in her book Female Pipings in Eden and suggests that this...
Literary responses Sylvia Pankhurst
The Times Literary Supplement reviewer found this work interesting, moving, and graphic: something more than a condensation of SP 's earlier history. It acknowledged, however, that not everybody involved with the suffrage struggle would accept...
Reception Emmeline Pankhurst
June Purvis traces the influence on EP 's reputation of the relations between her daughters. Sylvia , estranged from her mother, portrayed her in The Suffragette Movement (1931, influentially reprinted in 1977) as a lost...
Reception Christabel Pankhurst
A life by June Purvis (biographer of Emmeline Pankhurst) appeared in 2009.
Residence Christabel Pankhurst
She knew from her legal training that she would not be extradited from France for political offences, and, according to Pankhurst biographer June Purvis , she was fearful that the movement would collapse if all...
Textual Features Sylvia Pankhurst
This work, dealing with the earlier phases of the struggle, acknowledges the split among the Pankhursts, and confirms that SP felt uneasy about the WSPU leadership as early as 1911. It is a personal book...
Textual Features Sylvia Pankhurst
Emmeline's biographer June Purvis feels that Sylvia, while trying to be impartial, had developed too wide an ideological distance from her mother (and had been too much hurt by her rejection) to achieve fairness. The...

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Texts

Purvis, June. “’Deeds, Not Words’: Daily Life in the Women’s Social and Political Union in Edwardian Britain”. Votes for Women, edited by Sandra Stanley Holton and June Purvis, Routledge, 2000, pp. 135-58.
Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
Purvis, June. “Before and After: Reminiscences on a Working Life, by Edith Morley”. Times Higher Education.
Purvis, June. Email to Women’s Studies Group.
Purvis, June. Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography. Routledge, 2002.
Midgley, Clare. “Ethnicity, ‘Race’ and Empire”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis, St Martin’s Press, 1995, pp. 247-76.
Purvis, June. “Introduction: The Suffragette and Women’s History”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
14
, No. 3/4, pp. 357-61.
Purvis, June. “New Women”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
28
, No. 2, pp. 8-10.
Hannam, June. “Women and Politics”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis, University College London Press, 1995, pp. 217-45.
D’Cruze, Shani. “Women and the Family”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis, UCL Press, 1995, pp. 51-83.
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.
Purvis, June, editor. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945. Univeristy College London Press, 1995.
Purvis, June, and Maureen Wright. “Writing Suffragette History: the contending autobiographical narratives of the Pankhursts”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
14
, No. 3/4, pp. 405-33.