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This volume was published in 1921.
Eyewitness details of the early women's suffrage movement and their encounters with the politics of Great Britain.
From the book's Preface:
This history of the Women's Suffrage agitation
is written at a time when the question is in the very
forefront of British politics. What the immediate
future holds for those women who are most actively
engaged in fighting for their political freedom no
one can foretell, but one thing is certain: complete
victory for their cause is not far distant.
When the long struggle for the enfranchisement
of women is over, those who read the history of the
movement will wonder at the blindness that led the
Government of the day to obstinately resist so simple
and obvious a measure of justice.
The men and women of the coming time will, I
am persuaded, be filled with admiration for the
patient work of the early pioneers and the heroic
determination and persistence in spite of coercion,
repression, misrepresentation, and insult of those
who fought the later militant fight.
Perhaps the women born In the happier days that
are to come, while rejoicing In the Inheritance that
we of to-day are preparing for them, may sometimes
wish that they could have lived in the heroic days
of stress and struggle and have shared with us the
joy of battle, the exaltation that comes of sacrifice
of self for great objects and the prophetic vision
that assures us of the certain triumph of this twen-
tieth-century fight for human emancipation.
In writing this history of the Militant Women's
Suffrage Movement I have endeavoured to give a
just and accurate account of its progress and happen-
ings, dealing fully with as many of its incidents as
space will permit. I have tried to let my readers
look behind the scenes in order that they may under-
stand both the steps by which the movement has
grown and the motives and ideas that have animated
its promoters.
To many of our contemporaries perhaps the most
remarkable feature of the militant movement has
been the flinging-aside by thousands of women of
the conventional standards that hedge us so closely
round in these days for a right that large numbers
of men who possess it scarcely value. Of course it
was more difficult for the earlier militants to break
through the conventionalities than for those who fol-
lowed, but, as one of those associated with the move-
ment from its inception, I believe that the effort was
greater for those who first came forward to stand by
the originators than for the little group by whom the
first blows were struck. I believe this because I
know that the original militants were already in close
association with the truth that not only were the
deeds of the old time pioneers and martyrs glorious,
but that their work still lacks completion, and that
it behoves those of us who have grasped an idea
for human betterment to endure, if need be, social
ostracism, violence, and hardship of all kinds, in
order to establish it. Moreover, whilst the origi-
nators of the militant tactics let fly their bolt, as it
were, from the clear sky, their early associates rallied
to their aid in the teeth of all the fierce and bitter
opposition that had been raised.
A passionate love of freedom, a strong desire to do
social service and an intense sympathy for the un-
fortunate, together made the movement possible in
its present form. Those who have worked as a part
of it know that it is notable not merely for its en-
thusiasm and courage, but also for its cheery spirit
of loyalty and comradeship, its patient thoroughness
in organisation which has made possible its many
great demonstrations and processions, its freedom
from bitterness and recrimination, and its firm faith
In the right.
E. Pankhurst.
4, Clement's Inn, W. C, London.
January, 1911This volume was published in 1921.
Eyewitness details of the early women's suffrage movement and their encounters with the politics of Great Britain.
From the book's Preface:
This history of the Women's Suffrage agitation
is written at a time when the question is in the very
forefront of British politics. What the immediate
future holds for those women who are most actively
engaged in fighting for their political freedom no
one can foretell, but one thing is certain: complete
victory for their cause is not far distant.
When the long struggle for the enfranchisement
of women is over, those who read the history of the
movement will wonder at the blindness that led the
Government of the day to obstinately resist so simple
and obvious a measure of justice.
The men and women of the coming time will, I
am persuaded, be filled with admiration for the
patient work of the early pioneers and the heroic
determination and persistence in spite of coercion,
repression, misrepresentation, and insult of those
who fought the later militant fight.
Perhaps the women born In the happier days that
are to come, while rejoicing In the Inheritance that
we of to-day are preparing for them, may sometimes
wish that they could have lived in the heroic days
of stress and struggle and have shared with us the
joy of battle, the exaltation that comes of sacrifice
of self for great objects and the prophetic vision
that assures us of the certain triumph of this twen-
tieth-century fight for human emancipation.
In writing this history of the Militant Women's
Suffrage Movement I have endeavoured to give a
just and accurate account of its progress and happen-
ings, dealing fully with as many of its incidents as
space will permit. I have tried to let my readers
look behind the scenes in order that they may under-
stand both the steps by which the movement has
grown and the motives and ideas that have animated
its promoters.
To many of our contemporaries perhaps the most
remarkable feature of the militant movement has
been the flinging-aside by thousands of women of
the conventional standards that hedge us so closely
round in these days for a right that large numbers
of men who possess it scarcely value. Of course it
was more difficult for the earlier militants to break
through the conventionalities than for those who fol-
lowed, but, as one of those associated with the move-
ment from its inception, I believe that the effort was
greater for those who first came forward to stand by
the originators than for the little group by whom the
first blows were struck. I believe this because I
know that the original militants were already in close
association with the truth that not only were the
deeds of the old time pioneers and martyrs glorious,
but that their work still lacks completion, and that
it behoves those of us who have grasped an idea
for human betterment to endure, if need be, social
ostracism, violence, and hardship of all kinds, in
order to establish it. Moreover, whilst the origi-
nators of the militant tactics let fly their bolt, as it
were, from the clear sky, their early associates rallied
to their aid in the teeth of all the fierce and bitter
opposition that had been raised.
A passionate love of freedom, a strong desire to do
social service and an intense sympathy for the un-
fortunate, together made the movement possible in
its present form. Those who have worked as a part
of it know that it is notable not merely for its en-
thusiasm and courage, but also for its cheery spirit
of loyalty and comradeship, its patient thoroughness
in organisation which has made possible its many
great demonstrations and processions, its freedom
from bitterness and recrimination, and its firm faith
In the right.
E. Pankhurst.
4, Clement's Inn, W. C, London.
January, 1911
