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A footnote in history? Mary Gawthorpe, Sylvia Pankhurst, the suffragette movement and the writing of suffragette history [1]

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ID3200323
AuthorsKrista Cowman (0000-0002-1318-9450, Leeds Beckett University, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume14
Issue3-4
Pages447-466
Publication date2005-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWomen s History Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09612020500200840
OpenAlexW4245394975
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited9

In 1931, the Suffragette Fellowship invited several ex-suffragettes to contribute biographical statements and material to their archive to create a 'Book of Suffragette Prisoners' which would introduce the women who had been to prison in pursuit of the vote. In response, the suffragette Mary Gawthorpe, a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) committee between 1906 and 1911, deposited a series of testimonies describing her political activity beyond the WSPU. Gawthorpe's actions were partly prompted by her recent representation in Sylvia Pankhurst's text The Suffragette Movement which dismissed her as having 'emigrated to America, [taken] up journalism and married'. This article draws on material from Mary Gawthorpe's papers, recently deposited in the Tamiment Library, New York, to investigate Gawthorpe's response to Pankhurst's text. From this perspective, it considers some of the circumstances which provoke autobiographical responses to history

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Prison · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law

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Unique citing works1
Citations per year0,5
Citation span2022 - 2022 (1)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
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