Manuscript/Mixed Material Image 1 of Suffragettes Rush the House of Commons

About this Item

About this Item

Title

  • Suffragettes Rush the House of Commons

Created / Published

  • Current Literature, [October 1908]

Headings

  • -  suffrage-Militant
  • -  suffrage-demonstration
  • -  Women's Social and Political Union (England)
  • -  England-parliamentary suffrage
  • -  suffrage strategies
  • -  Pankhurst, Christabel
  • -  Pankhurst, Emmeline (1858-1928)
  • -  Matters, Miss Mureil
  • -  Women's Freedom League (England)
  • -  Drummond, Flora
  • -  Fox, Helen
  • -  Noilans, Alison
  • -  How-Martyn, Mrs
  • -  Holmes, Marion
  • -  Malone, Dorothy
  • -  Billington-Greig, Mrs
  • -  Clippings

Genre

  • Clippings

Notes

  • -  Detailed description of militant British suffragists agitation during October 1908. Emmeline Pankhurst's attempt to "rush" the House of Commons on October 13 resulted in 37 arrests, followed by a trial in police court, October 14-24, in which Christabel Pankhurst cross-examined David Lloyd George and Herbert Gladstone before going to jail. Photomechanical print of Flora Drummond, Christabel Pankhurst and Emmeline Pankhurst in court
  • -  On October 28 Helen Fox and Muriel Matters chained themselves to brass work in the ladies' gallery and rained suffrage handbills upon the House of Commons while Marion Holmes and other members of the Women's Freedom League stormed the Commons lobbies and Dorothy Malone climbed the equestrian statue of King Richard. Photomechanical prints of Helen Fox, Alison Noilans, Mrs. How Martyn and Mrs. Billington-Greig, under arrest; and other women just released from Holloway Jail being lead by suffragettes in white to a suffrage demonstration
  • -  London Times condemned these escapades as "childish demonstrations which silly women think clever."

Medium

  • clipping, 5 p.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • JK1881 .N357 sec. XVI, no. 3-9 NAWSA Coll
  • series: Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911; Scrapbook 7 (1908-1909)

Source Collection

  • Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911

Repository

  • Rare Book And Special Collections Division

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image
  • online text

Rights & Access

The Library of Congress is not aware of any copyright restrictions in the National Women Suffrage Association Collection. Researchers should watch for modern documents (for example, foreign works and works published in the United States less than 95 years ago, or unpublished if the author died less than 70 years ago) that may be copyrighted.

Responsibility for determining the legal status of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.

More about Copyright and other Restrictions

For guidance about compiling full citations consult Citing Primary Sources.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection.

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Suffragettes Rush the House of Commons. [Current Literature, October, 1908] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/rbcmiller001253/.

APA citation style:

(1908) Suffragettes Rush the House of Commons. [Current Literature, October] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/rbcmiller001253/.

MLA citation style:

Suffragettes Rush the House of Commons. [Current Literature, October, 1908] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/rbcmiller001253/>.