ID: 2684
The War: A Speech Delivered at the London Opera House, on September 8th, 1914
PANKHURST, Christabel
Category: History
Place/Publisher/Date:
London, Women's Social and Political Union. 1914.
Description:
First edition; 8vo; publisher's cream wrappers, lettered in green. Text of the speech delivered by Christabel Pankhurst on September 8th 1914 at the London Opera House (latterly the Stoll Theatre) when she outlined the new WSPU policy of abandoning 'Votes for Women' to support the government during the war. 'Because of the danger in which the country stands, and because of the terrible cost in suffering and in life the war imposes, the militant women have, for the time, ceased their warfare' (Preface). Christabel wholeheartedly supported the war. The Suffragette, the WSPU newspaper, was renamed Britannia, disseminating imperialist and nationalist literature. Christabel condemned all pacifists, arguing that they were funded by or supported the German state. Articles in Britannia argued for a kind of 'patriotic feminism', with the aim of cementing women's worth in British society through loyalty to the nation. Very good, a small stain to upper cover, light soiling and spotting to lower cover.
Price £500.00
