| 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 the members of the Union. When, in 1912, Pankhurst’s two trusted and loyal cohorts in the suffrage movement, Emmeline and Frederick Pethic-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, a newspaper for Union suffragettes, to replace Votes for Women, the paper edited by Emmeline Pethic-Lawrence. Although the Pethic-Lawrences continued to print their newspaper, The Suffragette became the Union’s official weekly paper. |
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