Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence

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Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence around 1910
Call for a mass rally for women in 1908. Chaired by Mrs. Pethick Lawrence

Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence (born October 21, 1867 in Clifton near Bristol as Emmeline Pethick, † March 11, 1954 in Gomshall , Surrey ) was a British suffragette .

Life

Emmeline Pethick was the second of 13 children to a businessman. From 1891 to 1895 she worked for the West London Mission. She helped Mary Neal run the Mission's Girls' Club. In the fall of 1895, she and Mary Neal left the mission to found the Espérance Club, which was not subject to the mission's requirements and which could experiment with dance and theater. In 1897 they also founded Maison Espérance, a tailor's shop with a minimum wage , eight-hour day and regular working hours.

Pethick married Frederick Lawrence in 1901 , and the couple adopted the double name "Pethick-Lawrence" as a family name. She was a member of the Suffrage Society and met Emmeline Pankhurst in 1906 . Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence became treasurer of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), raising £ 134,000 for the union over six years.

Pethick-Lawrence edited the publication Votes for Women from 1907 together with her husband. The couple were arrested and detained in 1912 for a demonstration that resulted in property damage, despite opposition to these types of actions. After her release, Emmeline Pankhurst's Pethick Lawrences were expelled from the WSPU for rejecting radical forms of activism. They then joined the United Suffragists. Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence took part in the Women's Peace Congress in The Hague in 1915. In 1918 she ran as a Labor MP for Manchester-Rusholme.

In 1938 Pethick-Lawrence published her memoirs, in which she mainly describes the radicalization of the suffragettes immediately before the First World War .

After her husband was ennobled as Baron Pethick-Lawrence in 1945 , she carried the courtesy title of Baroness Pethick-Lawrence as his wife .

Works

  • My part in a changing world , 1938.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Orlando Project: Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence , accessed December 30, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline (full name); Pethick, Emmeline (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British suffragette
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Clifton near Bristol
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1954
Place of death Gomshall , Surrey