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Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
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Walter Besant : Children of Gibeon
"'At a critical juncture', as she put it [in her autobiography] ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] read a novel which appealed directly to her combined desires for independence, purpose, and social usefulness: Walter Besant's Children of Gibeon ..."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence Print: Book
: Life of Mazzini
" ... it was reading a Life of Mazzini, with its description of how he founded the 'Young Italy' Society, in which each member was pledged to work for the liberation of the country, which led ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] to consider how [the young women of the leisured classes] might be brought together to work for human solidarity within England."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence Print: Book
William Morris : poetry
"Before she came into contact with Suffragism ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] felt her political outlook ... had been conditioned by reading Morris, Carpenter, and Whitman's poetry."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence Print: Unknown
Carpenter : poetry
"Before she came into contact with Suffragism ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] felt her political outlook ... had been conditioned by reading Morris, Carpenter, and Whitman's poetry."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence Print: Unknown
Walt Whitman : poetry
"Before she came into contact with Suffragism ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] felt her political outlook ... had been conditioned by reading Morris, Carpenter, and Whitman's poetry."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence Print: Book
William Shakespeare : History plays
"Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence wrote of having read Shakespeare's history plays whilst in prison [as suffragette] ..."
