Suffragette. Born Bristol. Married Frederick. A happy marriage they shared their surnames and worked together for the cause. Died Gomshall, Surrey.
The picture shows, left to right: Constance Lytton, Annie Kenney, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Christabel Pankhurst and Sylvia Pankhurst.
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Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, 1867 - 1954, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1871 - 1961
The renaming, reported by The Tab, was to celebrate 100 years since women gai...
We first saw this plaque when it was on the building that used to occupy this...
'Lost' in this instance means moved to a different building.
Activist and community leader. Born in St Catherine, Jamaica, and moved to Britain at the age of nine. She was a founding member of the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) in...
Person, Gender Issues, Race Issues, Social Welfare, Caribbean Islands
First woman to speak about women’s suffrage on a public platform. An early campaigner for women's rights. She funded campaigns, wrote one of the first tracts and was one of the three speakers at t...
Philanthropist, feminist, educationist. Born Rose Mary Yeates in Horton, Buckinghamshire, to William Willson Yeates and his first wife Mary. When she was seven three of her baby sisters died in qui...
Early campaigner for women’s rights, particularly the rights of workers. An editor of the Englishwoman's Review. Born County Kerry, Ireland.
Writer, philosopher and feminist before her time. Born Primrose Street, Spitalfields. Her radical book "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792) in which she described marriage as "legal prostitu...
Person, Education, Gender Issues, Philosophy, Seriously Famous, Denmark, France, Norway, Sweden
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