Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
- Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence (1867, Bristol, England – 1954) was a British
women's rights activist.
Her father was a businessman. She was the second of 13 children, and was sent away to boarding school at the age of eight.
Foundations, Organisations and Settlements
* Espérance Club
* Guild of the Poor Brave Things
* Independent Labour Party
* Kibbo Kift
* West London Methodist Mission
* Women's International League
* Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
ee also
*Frederick Lawrence (spouse). Each changed their surname to Pethick-Lawrence on marriage, and he was created Baron Pethick-Lawrence in 1945.
* Hugh Price Hughes
* Mark Guy Pearse, whom Lady Pethick-Lawrence described as "the greatest influence upon the first half of my life". [Brian Harrison, ‘Lawrence, Emmeline Pethick-, Lady Pethick-Lawrence (1867–1954)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37846 accessed 17 Nov 2007] ]
External links
* [http://www.kibbokift.org/who.html Kibbo Kift official history]
* [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wpethick.htm Spartacus References]
* [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REmethodism.htm Weslyan Methodists]
* [http://www.wlm.org.uk/ West London Mission]
References
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