Individual Women in the WSPU
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- Created on: 29-04-19 15:31
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- Successes of individual women
- Emily Davison
- Studied at Oxford but quit her job in 1908 to campaign full time for the vote
- Hid beneath the HOC the night before the 1911 census so that she could appear as residing in the HOC
- she frequently acted without the WSPU's instruction
- killed when she collided with the King's horse at Epsom Derby in 1913- unclear whether she was committing suicide or trying to attach a WSPU flag to the horse
- her funeral was used by the WSPU as a publicity stunt
- her actions showed the the WSPU were unable to control all their members
- Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst
- leaders of the WSPU
- Christabel organised the militancy while Emmeline attracted members
- Christabel was imprisoned for spitting on a police officer at a public meeting and refused to have her family pay to get her out
- Christabel inspired acts of arson in 1912, including on Churches and and the anti-suffrage cabinet minister Lewis Harcourt's house
- They led the move away from the ILP in 1906, which is seen as the suffragettes shift to the right
- their inability to compromise weakened the movement
- Sylvia Pankhurst
- she was a socialist
- she worked to promote women's suffrage amongst the working classes
- when her family leant more towards the Tories, Sylvia kept close connections with labour
- regularly in and out of prison for acts of militancy
- arrested in 1906 for disrupting a court case
- left the Royal College of Arts in 1906 to devote herself as the WSPU's secretary
- founded the ELFS after leaving the WSPU following arguing with her mother in 1913
- Emily Davison
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