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The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905-1910

Chapter 4: ILLUSTRATIONS
By E. Sylvia Pankhurst
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A first-hand history by an activist chronicles the militant women's suffrage movement from its early organizing through mass demonstrations, tactical innovations, and confrontations with authorities. It recounts arrests, courtroom episodes in which campaigners pressed government officials, prison internments, hunger strikes and forcible feeding, and methods used to publicize demands, while describing internal organization, discipline, and the solidarity that sustained participants. The narrative emphasizes motives, practical steps of agitation and protest, public responses, and the moral and strategic debates that shaped the campaign's development.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Sylvia Pankhurst designing a part of the decorations of the Prince's Skating Rink Frontispiece
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Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney 35
First Women's Suffrage Demonstration ever held in Trafalgar Square, May 19th, 1906. Mr. Keir Hardie speaking: Mrs. Pankhurst and Mrs. Wolstenholme Elmy in centre of the platform 80
Selling and advertising "Votes for Women" in Kingsway 174
Mrs. Pankhurst carrying a petition from the Third Women's Parliament to the Prime Minister on February 13th, 1908 202
The Head of the Procession to Hyde Park, June 21st, 1908 245
A Section of the great "Votes for Women" meeting in Hyde Park on June 21st, 1908 247
Lord Rosebery and other Members of both Houses watching the Suffragettes' struggle in Parliament Square, June 30th, 1908 248
Christabel Pankhurst inviting the public to "rush" the House of Commons, at a meeting in Trafalgar Square, Sunday, October 11th, 1908 255
Mrs. Pankhurst and Christabel hiding from the police in the roof garden at Clement's Inn, October 12th, 1908 257
Reading the Warrant, October 13th, 1908 266
Mr. Curtis Bennett listening to Miss Pankhurst's speech from the Dock, October, 1908 268
Miss Christabel Pankhurst questioning Mr. Herbert Gladstone 285
Mr. Herbert Gladstone in the witness-box being examined by Miss Christabel Pankhurst, October, 1908 300
Members of the Women's Freedom League attempting to enter the House after the taking down of the grille, October 28th, 1908 319
Mrs. Pankhurst in Prison 330
Ejection of a woman questioner from Birrell's meeting in the City Temple, November 12th, 1908 333
The Chelmsford By-Election 348
The human letters dispatched by Miss Jessie Kenney to Mr. Asquith at No. 10 Downing Street, Jan. 23, 1909 351
Procession to welcome Mrs. Pankhurst, Christabel, and Mrs. Leigh on their release from prison, December 19th, 1908 353
Mrs. Lawrence's Release Procession, April 17th, 1909 360
The arrest of Miss Dora Marsden, the Standard Bearer, March 30th, 1909 362
Elsie Howey who as Joan of Arc, rode at the head of the procession formed to celebrate Mrs. Pethick Lawrence's release from prison 365
A part of the decoration of the Exhibition held in the Prince's Skating Rink, May, 1909 369
The band out for the first time, May, 1909 376
Mrs. Pethick Lawrence's release, April 17th 380
Christabel waving to the hungry strikers from a house overlooking the prison, July, 1909 383
The hunger strikers waving to Christabel from their prison cells, July, 1909 394
Forcible Feeding with the Nasal Tube 433
Lady Constance Lytton before she threw the stone at New Castle, October 9th, 1909 440
Arrest of Miss Dora Marsden outside the Victoria University of Manchester, October 4th, 1909 444
Jessie Kenney as she tried to gain admittance to Mr. Asquith's meeting on Dec. 10, 1909, disguised as a telegraph boy 476