Greer, Germaine, and Emmeline Pankhurst. “Foreword”. Freedom or death, Guardian News and Media, 2007.
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Emily Wilding Davison
Standard Name: Davison, Emily Wilding
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Emmeline Pankhurst | Germaine Greer
has observed that the fact of Emily Davison
's death after running in front of the king's horse in the Derbyremains unspoken in Pankhurst's speech, which hardly makes sense without it. |
| Occupation | Susan Miles | The Robertses were succeeding a clergyman who also had liberal views. He had caused some offence by holding the funeral of Emily Davison
, the suffragist who was killed on the Derby racecourse. Miles, Susan. Portrait of a Parson. George Allen and Unwin, 1955. 56 |
| politics | Stella Benson | SB
had been a moderate until the death of the Derby Martyr, Emily Wilding Davison
, in 1913. After this she became more militant. When she moved to London in May 1914, she called... |
| politics | Rebecca West | 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 |
| politics | Constance Lytton | The others included Christabel Pankhurst
, Jane Esdon Brailsford
, and Emily Davison
. Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914. 204, 209 |
| politics | Dora Marsden | DM
, Emily Wilding Davison
, and other suffragists were arrested after interrupting a speech by Augustine Birrell
by throwing iron balls (at least one labelled as a bomb) through a glass partition at the... |
| politics | Dora Marsden | Following a physical struggle with police and onlookers, Marsden was arrested along with Rona Robinson
, Emily Wilding Davison
, and several others. Her experience was covered not only in Votes for Women, but... |
| Publishing | Beatrice Harraden | Among other contributions to the same journal she published speeches she had given (one on 2 May 1913 about her reasons for withholding tax as a member of the Tax Resistance League
), a short... |
| Publishing | Beatrice Harraden | BH
also wrote for the Bedford College
Magazine and the Cheltenham Ladies' College
Magazine: for the former in 1915 she described her war-work with the Commission for Relief in Belgium
. On 17 June... |
| Textual Production | Rose Tremain | In 1984 RT
received an award for a television play (as well as another this year for The Colonel's Daughter) and a Giles Cooper Award for Best Radio Play. Her winning Cooper entry was... |
| 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... |
Timeline
2 April 1911: A national census took place in Britain,...
National or international item
2 April 1911
A national census took place in Britain, and was widely boycotted by suffragist organizations under the slogan No Vote, No Census.
Frye, Kate Parry. Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary. Editor Crawford, Elizabeth, Francis Boutle Publishers, 2013.
42
McCarthy, Helen. “The Statistical Gaze”. London Review of Books, Vol.
39
, No. 11, 29 June 2017, pp. 34-5. 34
4 June 1913: Women's Social and Political Union supporter...
National or international item
4 June 1913
Women's Social and Political Union
supporter Emily Wilding Davison
threw herself in front of the king
's horse at the Epsom Derby; she died from her injuries several days later.
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
136
Lloyd, Trevor. Suffragettes International: The World-Wide Campaign for Women’s Rights. American Heritage Press, 1971.
89-90
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Davison
14 June 1913: Women's Social and Political Union supporters...
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14 June 1913
Women's Social and Political Union
supporters formed a funeral procession for Emily Wilding Davison
's funeral.
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
138ff
Frye, Kate Parry. Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary. Editor Crawford, Elizabeth, Francis Boutle Publishers, 2013.
6 July 1928: Four days after the Representation of the...
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6 July 1928
Four days after the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act received the royal assent, a celebratory breakfast was held at the Hotel Cecil in London.
“July 6, 1928, Celebrating full women’s suffrage”. Guardian Weekly, 6 July 2007, p. 20.
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