WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION.

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Flyer for the Parliament of Women, February 11-13, 1908. A flyer for a WSPU conference timed to coincide with the opening of the British Parliament, scarce. The primary concern was the government's omission of women's suffrage from its programme for 1908. In protest, the attendees of the Parliament of Women voted to send demonstrators to the House of Commons. Over 60 women were arrested, including Emmeline Pankhurst and Annie Kenney.Speaking at the Parliament of Women, Christabel Pankhurst stated that "'We have got to bring pressure to bear on the Government … we have got to make the Government wish they had given in before'". Annie Kenney "urged the women of social standing present to fight or the cause themslves, and go to prison if necessary, and not let the working-class women do all the fighting" (Votes for Women, p. 82). The suffragettes hired furniture vans to drive them to the doors of the Houses of Commons to attempt to gain entry, and were rapidly taken into custody.We have traced no copies of this flyer in institutions. Provenance: from the collection of the suffrage historian Elizabeth Crawford.

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