Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
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Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence (21 October 1867, Clifton, Bristol – 11 March 1954, Gomshall)[1] was a British women's rights activist.
Her father was a businessman. She was the second of 13 children, and was sent away to boarding school at the age of eight.
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[edit] Foundations, Organisations and Settlements
- Espérance Club
- Guild of the Poor Brave Things
- Independent Labour Party
- Kibbo Kift
- West London Methodist Mission
- Women's International League
- Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
[edit] See also
- Frederick Lawrence (spouse). Each changed their surname to Pethick Lawrence on marriage, and later to Pethick-Lawrence, and he was created Baron Pethick-Lawrence in 1945.
- History of feminism
- Hugh Price Hughes
- Lady Constance Lytton on whom she was a significant influence to become an activist.
- List of suffragists and suffragettes
- Mark Guy Pearse, whom Lady Pethick-Lawrence described as "the greatest influence upon the first half of my life".[2]
- Suffragette
- Women's Social and Political Union
- Women's suffrage
- Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom
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[edit] References
- ^ Orlando Project
- ^ Brian Harrison, ‘Lawrence, Emmeline Pethick-, Lady Pethick-Lawrence (1867–1954)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006 accessed 17 Nov 2007
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