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BRITISH SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT The Suffragette Newspaper One of the most characteristic features of the Women's Social and Political Union was its militancy: Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the Union, advocated a hard line for its members. When, in 1912, Pankhurst's two trusted and loyal supporters, Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, disagreed with her decision to encourage arson as a further step in the fight for suffrage, Pankhurst asked them to leave the Union. In October of that year, her daughter Christabel issued the first copy of The Suffragette to replace Votes for Women, the paper edited by Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence. The Suffragette became the Union's official weekly paper. Hulton Deutsch In the United Kingdom, the women's suffrage movement roughly paralleled that of the United States, but in the movement's later stages, more vigorous and violent tactics were often employed. Christabel Pankhurst In 1903 Emmeline Pankhurst created the Women's Social and Political Union to...

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