Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence,1867-1954
Lived at: South Holmwood (after marriage)
Profession: Activist, Journalist
Professional work:
Ardent socialist and supporter of the Women's suffrage movement
Co-founded the Esperance Club, providing holiday accommodation and a dress making cooperative for women in the textile industry, 1900
Treasurer of the Women’s Social and Political Union, 1906-1912
Joint editor of Votes for Women, which spread the WSPU message across the country, 1907-1914
Led the Women’s Freedom League which campaigned for the vote to be granted to women on equal terms with men, 1926-35
Published her autobiography My Part in a Changing World, 1937
