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rs. PANKHU
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The World-famed -Leader of the E.nglish Sufragettes
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Exclusive Management
J. B. POND LYCEUM
Metropolitan Life Building
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23rd St. and Fourth Avenue,
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SUBJECTS.
"The Militant Methods of the English Suffragettes."
"The Meaning of the Woman's Movement in England."
"Why Women in England go to Prison for the Vote."
"Why Women Want to Vote and How to Win It."
Mrs. Pankhurst is a powerful debater and speaker, and at the
close of the lectures will be prepared to answer questions that may be
put to her on the Suffragette Movement. She will arrive in New York
on the 18th of October, and as her lecture engagements will be limited
to five weeks, early application for terms and dates is necessary.
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Mrs. PANKHURST
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst was born in Manchester, England, on the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, her father being a great Radical Politician, and her grandfather having 11arrow1\~ escaped with his life at the great Franchise Riots at Peterloo in 1819. She was educated in Paris, and there met the daughter of Henri Rochefort and became an ardent Republican. In 1879, she met Dr. Pankhiirst who had been a member of the first Woman Suffrage Society, founded by John Stuart Mill, and was married to him in the same year. A little 1at~r she was placed on the Executive Committee of the oniy existing \Voniaii Suffrage Society, and was also oii the \Vonien s Committee for pushing the Married Women s Property Bill, which subsequently became law. In 1~3, she assisted her husband as Independent Radical Candidate for Manchester, and two years later as a Radical Candidate for Rotherhithe. In 1886, Mrs. Pankhurst caine to London, joined the Fabian Society and the Holborn \Vomen s Liberal Association. She remained a Liberal until I ~)2, when she joined the Independent Labour Party and returned to Manchester. In the same year she stood as the Independent Labour Candidate for the Manchester School Board, and was first of the defeated candidates. The f~.)11owing year she was elected head of the poii for the Poor Law Guardians for Manchester and served in that capacity for five years. Tn 1899. on the death of her husband, she was appointed Registrar of Births and I)eaths, and the following year was elected as Trades Council Nominee of the School Board, and twice s~rved on the National Demonstration Council of the Independent Labour Party.
In 1903, Mrs. Pankhurst, together with her daughter Christabel, formed the
Women s Social and Political Union, and was arrested on the 13th of February, 1908,
for heading a deputation of 13 women to the House of Commons and served a term of six weeks imprisonment in the secoiid division; that is, as an ordinary criminal. In October of the same year she was charged with inciting to riot, and together with her daughter Christabel, and Mrs. Druinmond, was arrested and tried in the Police Court, and after a trial lasting three days was sentenced to three months imprisonment, but was released a few weeks before the expiration of her sentence. On June 29th of the present year she was again arrested, this time for leading a deputation of eight women to the House of Commons in order to interview the Prime Minister. When the women were brought before the Magistrate the follow ing day and charged with obstructing the police in the execution of their duty , they were defended by Counsel. He pointed out that tinder an ancient statute deputations of less than ten in number possessed an absolute right to go in person to lay their claims before the King, or his representative, and the woman were, therefore, legally within their rights in persisting in going. This so impressed the Magistrate, that he agreed to adjourn the case for one week in order that the legal point thus raised might be investigated. The following week, however, he sentenced Mrs. Pankhurst, and her colleagues, to one month s imprisonment, but agreed to suspend the operation of their sentences until they should have been confirmed by a higher Court.
The Woman Suffrage Movement in England is of world-wide interest, and Mrs. Pankhurst is coming here to enlighteii the people as to the reason for it, the elements entering into the question hein~ of sociological interest.
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