Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence (1867, Bristol, England – 1954) was a
BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
women's rightsThe term women's rights refers to freedoms and entitlements of women and girls of all ages. These rights may or may not be institutionalized, ignored or suppressed by law, local custom, and behavior in a particular society...
activist.
Her father was a businessman. She was the second of 13 children, and was sent away to
boarding schoolA boarding school is a school where some or all pupils not only study, but also live during term time, with their fellow students and possibly teachers. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board", that is, food and lodging...
at the age of eight.
- Espérance Club
The Espérance Club, and the Maison Espérance dressmaking cooperative, were founded in the mid-1890s by Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Mary Neal in response to distressing conditions for girls in the London dress trade...
- Guild of the Poor Brave Things
The Guild of the Poor Brave Things was established in 1894 by Dame Grace Kimmins et al. to provide resources for disabled boys to enable them to make a productive place for themselves in society.-History:...
- Independent Labour Party
The Independent Labour Party was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom established in 1893. The ILP was affiliated as a constituent part of the Labour Party federation from its origin in 1906 until 1932, at which time the ILP left the larger group to pursue its own political path...
- Kibbo Kift
The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was a youth organisation in England from 1920 to 1951.-Origins:The organisation was founded by the charismatic Englishman John Hargrave , artist, author and Boy Scout Commissioner for Woodcraft and Camping, who had become disenchanted with the increasingly militaristic...
- West London Methodist Mission
The West London Methodist Mission was established in 1887 under the leadership of Hugh Price Hughes, a leading voice in Methodism and in Non-Conformity, and has a long track record as a Methodist ministry and as a spiritual home for "good works". Its early days are very much associated with its...
- Women's International League
- Women's Social and Political Union
The Women's Social and Political Union was the leading militant organisation campaigning for Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom...
(WSPU)
- Frederick Lawrence
Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence PC was a British Labour politician.-Background and education:...
(spouse).
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Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence (1867, Bristol, England – 1954) was a
BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
women's rightsThe term women's rights refers to freedoms and entitlements of women and girls of all ages. These rights may or may not be institutionalized, ignored or suppressed by law, local custom, and behavior in a particular society...
activist.
Her father was a businessman. She was the second of 13 children, and was sent away to
boarding schoolA boarding school is a school where some or all pupils not only study, but also live during term time, with their fellow students and possibly teachers. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board", that is, food and lodging...
at the age of eight.
Foundations, Organisations and Settlements
- Espérance Club
The Espérance Club, and the Maison Espérance dressmaking cooperative, were founded in the mid-1890s by Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Mary Neal in response to distressing conditions for girls in the London dress trade...
- Guild of the Poor Brave Things
The Guild of the Poor Brave Things was established in 1894 by Dame Grace Kimmins et al. to provide resources for disabled boys to enable them to make a productive place for themselves in society.-History:...
- Independent Labour Party
The Independent Labour Party was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom established in 1893. The ILP was affiliated as a constituent part of the Labour Party federation from its origin in 1906 until 1932, at which time the ILP left the larger group to pursue its own political path...
- Kibbo Kift
The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was a youth organisation in England from 1920 to 1951.-Origins:The organisation was founded by the charismatic Englishman John Hargrave , artist, author and Boy Scout Commissioner for Woodcraft and Camping, who had become disenchanted with the increasingly militaristic...
- West London Methodist Mission
The West London Methodist Mission was established in 1887 under the leadership of Hugh Price Hughes, a leading voice in Methodism and in Non-Conformity, and has a long track record as a Methodist ministry and as a spiritual home for "good works". Its early days are very much associated with its...
- Women's International League
- Women's Social and Political Union
The Women's Social and Political Union was the leading militant organisation campaigning for Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom...
(WSPU)
See also
- Frederick Lawrence
Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence PC was a British Labour politician.-Background and education:...
(spouse). Each changed their surname to Pethick Lawrence on marriage, and later to Pethick-Lawrence, and he was created Baron Pethick-Lawrence in 1945.
- History of feminism
The history of feminism is the history of feminist movements. Most feminist historians assert that all movements that work to overturn gender inequality and obtain women's rights should be considered feminist movements, even when they did not apply the term to themselves...
- Hugh Price Hughes
Hugh Price Hughes , was a Welsh Christian theologian in the Methodist tradition. He was the founder of the Methodist Times and the first superintendent of the West London Methodist Mission, a key Methodist organisation today...
- Lady Constance Lytton on whom she was a significant influence to become an activist.
- List of suffragists and suffragettes
- Mark Guy Pearse
Mark Guy Pearse was a Cornish Methodist preacher, lecturer and author who, during the last quarter of the 19th century and the first of the 20th, was a household name throughout Britain and beyond...
, whom Lady Pethick-Lawrence described as "the greatest influence upon the first half of my life".
- Suffragette
Suffragette is a term originally coined by the Daily Mail newspaper as a derogatory label for the more radical and militant members of the late-19th and early-20th century movement for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, in particular members of the Women's Social and Political Union...
- Women's Social and Political Union
The Women's Social and Political Union was the leading militant organisation campaigning for Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom...
- Women's suffrage
Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote, and historically includes the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage to women. The movement's modern origins lie in France in the 18th century. Of currently existing independent countries, New Zealand was the first to give...
- Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom
Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom as a national movement began in 1872. Women were not formally prohibited from voting in the United Kingdom until the 1832 Reform Act and the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act...
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