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Women, who had chosen peaceful methods, had few results and were often ignored by society. The organization shows that to create social change a person must be willing to challenge social norms through any means necessary. Skip to main content. Lisa DiCarpio and Merry E. Wiesner, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, Women in Nineteenth-Century Europe , Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help!

From , WSPU members made numerous public speeches, both in rented halls and in the open air, and many were brought to trial for their political activities. This collection of speeches and trial transcripts documents the WSPU from its founding through its turn to violent tactics to the winning of the vote in An introduction to each section summarizes Union activity over discrete periods, outlining the major verbal arguments and images for that time frame.

These introductions, combined with the speeches and several trial transcripts, provide a chronological view of WSPU history. Share This Paper. Citation Type. Has PDF. Publication Type. More Filters. Women's History Review. View 2 excerpts, cites background. Hunger Strike. Speech by Lady Constance Lytton. Times of London, February 10, Times of London, March 30, pt. Black Friday. Argument of the Broken Pane.

Albert Hall. November 16, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence. Argument of the Broken Pane Emmeline Pankhurst pt. Importance of the Vote Emmeline Pankhurst.