Series: Women's and Gender History

Together with her mother, Emmeline, Christabel Pankhurst co-led the single-sex Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), founded in 1903 and soon regarded as the most notorious of the groupings campaigning for the parliamentary vote for women. A First Class Honours Graduate in Law, the determined and charismatic Christabel, a captivating orator, revitalised the women’s suffrage campaign by rousing thousands of...

This reference source guides the reader through the labyrinth of people and organisations that were involved in the women's suffrage movement, drawing on information from a wide range of archival sources, both local and national. The Women's Suffrage Movement contains over 400 biographical entries on both women and men involved in the movement between 1866 and 1928 and more than...