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When did England give the right to vote to women? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DennisDaniels ( talk • contribs) 17:54, 21 October 2002 (UTC)
Were any of the Pankhursts born in Salford or did any of them spend a significant period of their lives in the city?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.76.124.118 ( talk) 07:47, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
What a great article! Bravo to the writers! -- 24.12.159.252 ( talk) 02:19, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
maybe a picture of Emmeline Pankhurst would be useful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.13.16.142 ( talk) 18:49, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Dr. Who is the name of a British science fiction series, where "The Doctor" is a time traveler, and in the episode broadcast on 31 March 2007 called "Smith and Jones", he comments that his "laser spanner" was stolen by Emily Pankhurst - given that he is a time traveler, who has met Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, Queen Elizabeth the first etc - it is not unlikely that it is Emmeline Pankhurst he is referring to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IceHunter ( talk • contribs) 13:43, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
It would be interesting to have some biographical information in the article. Anybody has the knowledge and time to do it? Goochelaar ( talk) —Preceding comment was added at 11:16, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm not at all happy about this section, which seems to be pretty much a Trivia section in disguise. Does anyone really care that: "In Helen Fielding's novel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Tom tries to convince Bridget to vote and says, 'Go on then. Remember Mrs. Pankhurst.'" Is that really important, relevant, or encyclopedic? -- Malleus Fatuorum ( talk) 20:27, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm beginning a full-scale reconstruction of this article, with the goal of taking it to FA status. I shall abolish the pop culture section, since that is strongly disfavoured by the English Wikipedia community. I will hopefully move the renovated article from my drawing board to the article namespace by 1 September. – Scartol • Tok 22:16, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
What a terrific article - well done User:Scartol. I made a couple of Br Eng edits. What a pity User:Tttom who tagged the article didn't come here to discuss what he saw was wrong with it. It reads fine to me, and not weaselly at all.
One query - the Goulden house in Seedley is described as a cottage. Seedley is described on its page as being an 'area ... mostly made up of terraced housing, dating from the late 19th century and early 20th century' so it seems unlikley the house was a cottage, which is a term usually used to describe traditional rural housing. 81.156.175.153 ( talk) 07:59, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
(undent) The footnote at the end of the paragraph which has been tagged refers the reader to the two book-length biographies that have been published about Mrs. Pankhurst (both in 2002, both published by Routledge, interestingly enough). The pages cited in the books by Bartley and Purvis contain an extended discussion about the contention among historians (including Pugh, Liddington, Phillips, and others) about whether her actions increased or decreased public support for women's suffrage. This wasn't an effort to put my opinion into the words of her biographers; it's an effort to represent the general opinion across the field of Pankhurst studies.
By the way: If anyone would like to contribute a more comprehensive peer review, I'd love to have in-depth feedback here. FA, we're on the way! Cheers. Scartol • Tok 16:58, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
I have repeated the citation to replace the "fact" tag, although I was under the impression that a citation at the end of a paragraph is assumed to contain the totality of the information in said paragraph. I suppose this is a case where a specific extra citation is useful. Thanks to all for your input. Scartol • Tok 16:54, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
If it's the case (as it appears to be) that the bit in the lead about the dispute among historians is controversial and/or likely to be questioned, how about we replace the wording that was removed, and add the same footnotes from the Legacy section? Do you see that as a satisfactory solution, Ttom? Scartol • Tok 11:30, 10 October 2008 (UTC)The verifiability policy advises that material that is challenged or likely to be challenged, and quotations, should be cited. Because the lead will usually repeat information also in the body, editors should balance the desire to avoid redundant citations in the lead with the desire to aid readers in locating sources for challengeable material. Leads are usually written at a greater level of generality than the body, and information in the lead section of non-controversial subjects is less likely to be challenged and less likely to require a source; there is not, however, an exception to citation requirements specific to leads. The necessity for citations in a lead should be determined on a case-by-case basis by editorial consensus. Complex, current, or controversial subjects may require many citations; others, few or none.
Blofeld of SPECTRE recently switched the order of paragraphs in the "Family and birth" section, to start the article with info about Mrs. Pankhurst's birth, and then give background on her family.
I actually think it's better to start with family background and then get into the birth of the subject, since this is a chronological approach. (First there was the family, then the child was born.) I used this approach when writing the biographies of Emmy Noether and Chinua Achebe – in both cases, a paragraph about the family is provided, then we move on to the birth of the subject her/himself. In those cases it seemed to work well.
I don't really feel strongly one way or another, but I do have a general preference for chronological ordering of things. I just want what's best for the article, though, so I'm curious about what other folks think. Scartol • Tok 14:25, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
A very good article indeed. Johncmullen1960 ( talk) 05:20, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
The third paragraph states she married in 1878 whereas the section "Marriage and Family" states she was married 18 December 1879. Which date is correct? Dcutter ( talk) 09:42, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Category:English suffragists is itself a category within Category:British suffragists, ditto Category:English feminists and Category:British feminists, and Category:British feminists and Category:British women's rights activists. — Robert Greer ( talk) 19:26, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
None of these contributors seem to have had any living links to the Sufragette movement, my late Grandmother had firm opinions on the subject all her long lfe.
"Those stupid Pankhurst women. It's far more important being able to feed ten children than trying to get the vote". The Sufragette movement was only ever intended for the middle and upper classes and to quote my grandmother again, "It was the war that brought the vote for ordinary women not the Sufragettes". AT Kunene ( talk) 13:39, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
'One early target of WSPU opposition was future Prime Minister Winston Churchill; his opponent attributed Churchill's defeat in part to "those ladies who are sometimes laughed at."'
Which defeat does this refer to? Valetude ( talk) 13:19, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
Why no mention of the bomb she and her gang planted at the house of Lloyd George? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.185.226.5 ( talk) 17:35, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Is it alright if I add an infobox, or is there a specific reason there is none? ~ Iamthecheese44 ( talk) 06:50, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
At ticket:2016022510004077 on WP:OTRS someone has provided a copy of what seems to be this person's birth certificate. The certificate says "Crown copyright" so I think it cannot be republished in Wikipedia. The submitter says that the certificate spells her name as "Emiline Pankhurst", and requests that this article present that spelling. Thoughts from anyone?
I regret to say that it is difficult to show the birth certificate when it requires OTRS permission to read it through this link. Personally I do not know what to think, and am only conveying the request. I am inviting the person who shared it to comment here. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:14, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
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This article passed FAC without an info box and has remained without for many years. It is unnecessary as, like many other biographies, the box does not allow any nuance and repeats factoids already included in the well written lead. SagaciousPhil - Chat 14:01, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Regarding the "popular culture" item I added about E.P. in the Gillian Linscott novel, subsequently removed as not sufficiently notable: I'm wondering if this was the best decision. Is the Linscott mystery really less notable, for example, than the graphic-novel trilogy? I don't know if it matters, but the Linscott book is part of a series featuring a (fictional) Suffragette protagonist, and Pankhurst may even appear extensively within the series, though I haven't read enough of the books to know. Worth reconsidering? Jcejhay ( talk) 15:36, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
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When Emmeline Pankhurst died it was Kitty Marshall, Margaret, Lady Rhondda and Rosamund Massy who decided to arrange her memorials. They raised money for her gravestone in Brompton Cemetery and a statue of her outside the House of Commons (which she was had frequently been stopped from entering). Money was also raised money to buy the painting that had been made by fellow suffragette Georgina Brackenbury so that it could be given to the National Portrait Gallery. [1] Massy's prison badge and hunger strike medal were placed in a casket in the plinth of Emmeline Pankhurst's statue in the Victoria Tower Gardens. [2] It was unveiled by Stanley Baldwin in 1930.
References
Crawford
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).The article is essentially a summary of why the subject of the statue is notable, but there is little - if anything - about the subject of the article, the statue. There is media coverage about the unveiling given it is a recent event, however I would raise questions if the status itself is sufficiently notable. The article does not attempt to establish notability of the statue. Therefore, I propose a merger and redirect. pseudonym Jake Brockman talk 12:15, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
According to the reference given for her birth, she was registered as Emiline Goulden. At what point did she become Emmeline? DuncanHill ( talk) 13:33, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
It says, under Marriage and family, the that the Pankhursts moved to Russel Square after Frank had died of diphtheria in 1888, and that they in their Russel Square home received, among others, the US abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. So I followed the link to check him up. And it said in that article that he died in 1879. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.211.201.66 ( talk) 11:19, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
This is an article about a woman who organized a terrorist campaign, which quoting wikipedia included: "improvised explosive devices, arson, letter bombs, assassination attempts". These terrorist acts killed multiple people and animals.
She then went on to found an entirely racist political party. She was obsessed that foreigners and jews were a threat to britain. She mentioned the 'british race' a lot in her speeches and would be considered by today's standards a white supremacist.
The manifesto of her political party reads: the natural resources, the essential infrastructure and the transport system of the british isles and of the empire in general, to be under strictly british ownership and control. - in other words, no foreigners to be allowed a share in british commerce. The party's manifesto then went on to say the british public service to be manned exclusively by officials of long british descent and entirely british connection - ie. the civil service would only be allowed to employ white people who's families had lived in britain for generations and were not allowed to have foreign relatives or relatives living abroad.
Not putting these things front and center is burying the headline. Leaving them out entirely is plain whitewashing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.62.110.180 ( talk) 14:48, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
a number of citations needed flags appear in this article and I have added some already: help is requested from editors with detailed information to cite e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red or Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History Thank you Kaybeesquared ( talk) 22:51, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
There is little to no evidence that Pankhurst participated in or directly publicly supported the White Feather Movement. Popular historian Jenny Draper says in her YouTube video (from 21:21 minutes) on the topic that multiple biographies, including her autobiography, do not mention the White Feather. Her newspapers The Suffragette and Britannia also do not even mention the campaign. A search in the archive of British newspapers shows no connection to Pankhurst and the movement. Yet in the opening to this Wiki article, it states "Emmeline and Christabel urged women to aid industrial production and encouraged young men to fight, becoming prominent figures in the white feather movement." The source given for this is a paper by Robin MacDonald, but it merely mentions that some supporters of Pankhurst gave out white feathers at the location of one of her speeches.
I suggest the claim that she became a "prominent figure in the white feather movement" should be deleted, and perhaps any reference to the movement, as she is never depicted as having any connection to it in any serious literature covering the course of her life and her campaigning.
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When did England give the right to vote to women? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DennisDaniels ( talk • contribs) 17:54, 21 October 2002 (UTC)
Were any of the Pankhursts born in Salford or did any of them spend a significant period of their lives in the city?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.76.124.118 ( talk) 07:47, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
What a great article! Bravo to the writers! -- 24.12.159.252 ( talk) 02:19, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
maybe a picture of Emmeline Pankhurst would be useful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.13.16.142 ( talk) 18:49, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Dr. Who is the name of a British science fiction series, where "The Doctor" is a time traveler, and in the episode broadcast on 31 March 2007 called "Smith and Jones", he comments that his "laser spanner" was stolen by Emily Pankhurst - given that he is a time traveler, who has met Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, Queen Elizabeth the first etc - it is not unlikely that it is Emmeline Pankhurst he is referring to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IceHunter ( talk • contribs) 13:43, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
It would be interesting to have some biographical information in the article. Anybody has the knowledge and time to do it? Goochelaar ( talk) —Preceding comment was added at 11:16, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm not at all happy about this section, which seems to be pretty much a Trivia section in disguise. Does anyone really care that: "In Helen Fielding's novel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Tom tries to convince Bridget to vote and says, 'Go on then. Remember Mrs. Pankhurst.'" Is that really important, relevant, or encyclopedic? -- Malleus Fatuorum ( talk) 20:27, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm beginning a full-scale reconstruction of this article, with the goal of taking it to FA status. I shall abolish the pop culture section, since that is strongly disfavoured by the English Wikipedia community. I will hopefully move the renovated article from my drawing board to the article namespace by 1 September. – Scartol • Tok 22:16, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
What a terrific article - well done User:Scartol. I made a couple of Br Eng edits. What a pity User:Tttom who tagged the article didn't come here to discuss what he saw was wrong with it. It reads fine to me, and not weaselly at all.
One query - the Goulden house in Seedley is described as a cottage. Seedley is described on its page as being an 'area ... mostly made up of terraced housing, dating from the late 19th century and early 20th century' so it seems unlikley the house was a cottage, which is a term usually used to describe traditional rural housing. 81.156.175.153 ( talk) 07:59, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
(undent) The footnote at the end of the paragraph which has been tagged refers the reader to the two book-length biographies that have been published about Mrs. Pankhurst (both in 2002, both published by Routledge, interestingly enough). The pages cited in the books by Bartley and Purvis contain an extended discussion about the contention among historians (including Pugh, Liddington, Phillips, and others) about whether her actions increased or decreased public support for women's suffrage. This wasn't an effort to put my opinion into the words of her biographers; it's an effort to represent the general opinion across the field of Pankhurst studies.
By the way: If anyone would like to contribute a more comprehensive peer review, I'd love to have in-depth feedback here. FA, we're on the way! Cheers. Scartol • Tok 16:58, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
I have repeated the citation to replace the "fact" tag, although I was under the impression that a citation at the end of a paragraph is assumed to contain the totality of the information in said paragraph. I suppose this is a case where a specific extra citation is useful. Thanks to all for your input. Scartol • Tok 16:54, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
If it's the case (as it appears to be) that the bit in the lead about the dispute among historians is controversial and/or likely to be questioned, how about we replace the wording that was removed, and add the same footnotes from the Legacy section? Do you see that as a satisfactory solution, Ttom? Scartol • Tok 11:30, 10 October 2008 (UTC)The verifiability policy advises that material that is challenged or likely to be challenged, and quotations, should be cited. Because the lead will usually repeat information also in the body, editors should balance the desire to avoid redundant citations in the lead with the desire to aid readers in locating sources for challengeable material. Leads are usually written at a greater level of generality than the body, and information in the lead section of non-controversial subjects is less likely to be challenged and less likely to require a source; there is not, however, an exception to citation requirements specific to leads. The necessity for citations in a lead should be determined on a case-by-case basis by editorial consensus. Complex, current, or controversial subjects may require many citations; others, few or none.
Blofeld of SPECTRE recently switched the order of paragraphs in the "Family and birth" section, to start the article with info about Mrs. Pankhurst's birth, and then give background on her family.
I actually think it's better to start with family background and then get into the birth of the subject, since this is a chronological approach. (First there was the family, then the child was born.) I used this approach when writing the biographies of Emmy Noether and Chinua Achebe – in both cases, a paragraph about the family is provided, then we move on to the birth of the subject her/himself. In those cases it seemed to work well.
I don't really feel strongly one way or another, but I do have a general preference for chronological ordering of things. I just want what's best for the article, though, so I'm curious about what other folks think. Scartol • Tok 14:25, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
A very good article indeed. Johncmullen1960 ( talk) 05:20, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
The third paragraph states she married in 1878 whereas the section "Marriage and Family" states she was married 18 December 1879. Which date is correct? Dcutter ( talk) 09:42, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Category:English suffragists is itself a category within Category:British suffragists, ditto Category:English feminists and Category:British feminists, and Category:British feminists and Category:British women's rights activists. — Robert Greer ( talk) 19:26, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
None of these contributors seem to have had any living links to the Sufragette movement, my late Grandmother had firm opinions on the subject all her long lfe.
"Those stupid Pankhurst women. It's far more important being able to feed ten children than trying to get the vote". The Sufragette movement was only ever intended for the middle and upper classes and to quote my grandmother again, "It was the war that brought the vote for ordinary women not the Sufragettes". AT Kunene ( talk) 13:39, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
'One early target of WSPU opposition was future Prime Minister Winston Churchill; his opponent attributed Churchill's defeat in part to "those ladies who are sometimes laughed at."'
Which defeat does this refer to? Valetude ( talk) 13:19, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
Why no mention of the bomb she and her gang planted at the house of Lloyd George? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.185.226.5 ( talk) 17:35, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Is it alright if I add an infobox, or is there a specific reason there is none? ~ Iamthecheese44 ( talk) 06:50, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
At ticket:2016022510004077 on WP:OTRS someone has provided a copy of what seems to be this person's birth certificate. The certificate says "Crown copyright" so I think it cannot be republished in Wikipedia. The submitter says that the certificate spells her name as "Emiline Pankhurst", and requests that this article present that spelling. Thoughts from anyone?
I regret to say that it is difficult to show the birth certificate when it requires OTRS permission to read it through this link. Personally I do not know what to think, and am only conveying the request. I am inviting the person who shared it to comment here. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:14, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
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This article passed FAC without an info box and has remained without for many years. It is unnecessary as, like many other biographies, the box does not allow any nuance and repeats factoids already included in the well written lead. SagaciousPhil - Chat 14:01, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Regarding the "popular culture" item I added about E.P. in the Gillian Linscott novel, subsequently removed as not sufficiently notable: I'm wondering if this was the best decision. Is the Linscott mystery really less notable, for example, than the graphic-novel trilogy? I don't know if it matters, but the Linscott book is part of a series featuring a (fictional) Suffragette protagonist, and Pankhurst may even appear extensively within the series, though I haven't read enough of the books to know. Worth reconsidering? Jcejhay ( talk) 15:36, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
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When Emmeline Pankhurst died it was Kitty Marshall, Margaret, Lady Rhondda and Rosamund Massy who decided to arrange her memorials. They raised money for her gravestone in Brompton Cemetery and a statue of her outside the House of Commons (which she was had frequently been stopped from entering). Money was also raised money to buy the painting that had been made by fellow suffragette Georgina Brackenbury so that it could be given to the National Portrait Gallery. [1] Massy's prison badge and hunger strike medal were placed in a casket in the plinth of Emmeline Pankhurst's statue in the Victoria Tower Gardens. [2] It was unveiled by Stanley Baldwin in 1930.
References
Crawford
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).The article is essentially a summary of why the subject of the statue is notable, but there is little - if anything - about the subject of the article, the statue. There is media coverage about the unveiling given it is a recent event, however I would raise questions if the status itself is sufficiently notable. The article does not attempt to establish notability of the statue. Therefore, I propose a merger and redirect. pseudonym Jake Brockman talk 12:15, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
According to the reference given for her birth, she was registered as Emiline Goulden. At what point did she become Emmeline? DuncanHill ( talk) 13:33, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
It says, under Marriage and family, the that the Pankhursts moved to Russel Square after Frank had died of diphtheria in 1888, and that they in their Russel Square home received, among others, the US abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. So I followed the link to check him up. And it said in that article that he died in 1879. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.211.201.66 ( talk) 11:19, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
This is an article about a woman who organized a terrorist campaign, which quoting wikipedia included: "improvised explosive devices, arson, letter bombs, assassination attempts". These terrorist acts killed multiple people and animals.
She then went on to found an entirely racist political party. She was obsessed that foreigners and jews were a threat to britain. She mentioned the 'british race' a lot in her speeches and would be considered by today's standards a white supremacist.
The manifesto of her political party reads: the natural resources, the essential infrastructure and the transport system of the british isles and of the empire in general, to be under strictly british ownership and control. - in other words, no foreigners to be allowed a share in british commerce. The party's manifesto then went on to say the british public service to be manned exclusively by officials of long british descent and entirely british connection - ie. the civil service would only be allowed to employ white people who's families had lived in britain for generations and were not allowed to have foreign relatives or relatives living abroad.
Not putting these things front and center is burying the headline. Leaving them out entirely is plain whitewashing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.62.110.180 ( talk) 14:48, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
a number of citations needed flags appear in this article and I have added some already: help is requested from editors with detailed information to cite e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red or Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History Thank you Kaybeesquared ( talk) 22:51, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
There is little to no evidence that Pankhurst participated in or directly publicly supported the White Feather Movement. Popular historian Jenny Draper says in her YouTube video (from 21:21 minutes) on the topic that multiple biographies, including her autobiography, do not mention the White Feather. Her newspapers The Suffragette and Britannia also do not even mention the campaign. A search in the archive of British newspapers shows no connection to Pankhurst and the movement. Yet in the opening to this Wiki article, it states "Emmeline and Christabel urged women to aid industrial production and encouraged young men to fight, becoming prominent figures in the white feather movement." The source given for this is a paper by Robin MacDonald, but it merely mentions that some supporters of Pankhurst gave out white feathers at the location of one of her speeches.
I suggest the claim that she became a "prominent figure in the white feather movement" should be deleted, and perhaps any reference to the movement, as she is never depicted as having any connection to it in any serious literature covering the course of her life and her campaigning.