page_title: Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence
section_title: Activism
hierarchical_section_title: Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence / Activism
caption_attribution_description: English: N39
context_page_description: Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Lady Pethick-Lawrence was a British women's rights activist and suffragette.
context_section_description: Pethick-Lawrence was a member of the Suffrage Society and was introduced to Emmeline Pankhurst in 1906. She became treasurer of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), which Pankurst had founded in 1903, and raised £134,000 over six years.  Pethick-Lawrence attended a number of events with Pankhurst including the aborted visit to the Prime Minister in late June 1908,  along with Jessie Stephenson, Florence Haig, Maud Joachim and Mary Phillips after which there was some violent treatment of women protestors, and a number of arrests.
  Pethick-Lawrence founded the publication Votes for Women with her husband in 1907. The couple was arrested and imprisoned in 1912 for conspiracy following demonstrations that involved breaking windows, even though they had disagreed with that form of action. 
  After being released from prison, the Pethick-Lawrences were unceremoniously ousted from the WSPU by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel, because of their ongoing disagreement over the more radical forms of activism that the Pethick-Lawrences opposed. Her sister Dorothy Pethick also left the WSPU in protest at their treatment, having previously taken part and been imprisoned for militant action. The Pethick-Lawrences then joined the United Suffragists. 
  In 1938 Pethick-Lawrence published her memoirs, which discuss the radicalization of the suffrage movement just before the First World War.  She was involved in the setting up of the Suffragette Fellowship with Edith How-Martyn to document the movement.
  In 1945, she became Lady Pethick-Lawrence when her husband was made a baron.
caption: Votes for Women, the suffragette newspaper founded by the Pethick-Lawrences
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