Word: pankhurst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brushing Off the Webbs. In less time than it takes to say Emmeline Pankhurst, Rebecca West was in London writing literary criticism on the Freewoman's staff. A year later she was a full-fledged political writer on the old Socialist Clarion, and a member of that Socialist intellectual advance guard, the Fabian Society. Its pundits, Sidney & Beatrice Webb, had her in for dinner, but "I argued with the Webbs, so I was never invited back...
Annie takes up the torch of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst after Cork burns down her schoolhouse. Eager to bring Cork to trial, she discovers that women can't serve on the jury because they haven't the right to vote. Annie heads for Cheyenne and the legislature to change all that. Her fervor kindles the latent womanhood of a jaded cabaret queen, Elsie (Gladys George). It is no trick for Elsie and her chorus of fancy dollies, who are on kissing-cousin terms with the legislature, to get Annie's bill for woman suffrage introduced. Annie does...
Fearful for the wartime rights of expectant mothers and expected children, famed English Feminist Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst, mother of an illegitimate "eugenic" son, urged that pregnant women receive the Army allowance regularly given to children already born (maximum weekly payment...