Votes For Women

London, March 1912. Large newspaper. 11 pages. Very good plus condition. Scarce.

Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Lady Pethick-Lawrence (21 October 1867 - 11 March 1954)[1] was a British women's rights activist and suffragette Pethick-Lawrence was a member of the Suffrage Society and was introduced to Emmeline Pankhurst in 1906. She became treasurer of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), which Pankurst had founded in 1903, and raised £134,000 over six years. Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, 1921 Pethick-Lawrence founded the publication Votes for Women with her husband in 1907. The couple was arrested and imprisoned in 1912 for conspiracy following demonstrations that involved breaking windows, even though they had disagreed with that form of action. After being released from prison, the Pethick-Lawrence's were unceremoniously ousted from the WSPU by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel, because of their ongoing disagreement over the more radical forms of activism that the Pethick-Lawrence's opposed. They then joined the United Suffragists. In 1938 Pethick-Lawrence published her memoirs, which discuss the radicalization of the suffrage movement just before the First World War.