CHAPTER PAGE
I[205]
II[221]
III[249]
IV[270]
V[285]
VI[303]
VII[323]
VIII[339]
IX[350]

ILLUSTRATIONS

Portrait of Mrs. Pankhurst[Frontispiece]
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PAGE
Mrs. Pankhurst addressing a by-election crowd[74]
Mrs. Pankhurst and Christabel hiding from the police
on the roof garden at Clements Inn, October, 1908		[120]
Christabel, Mrs. Drummond and Mrs. Pankhurst in the
dock, First Conspiracy Trial, October, 1908		[126]
Mrs. Pankhurst and Miss Christabel Pankhurst in prison
dress		[132]
Inspector Wells conducting Mrs. Pankhurst to the
House of Commons, June, 1908		[140]
Over 1,000 women had been in prison—Broad arrows in
the 1910 parade		[170]
The head of the deputation on Black Friday, November,
1910		[178]
For hours scenes like this were enacted on Black Friday,
November, 1910		[180]
Riot scenes on Black Friday, November, 1910[186]
In this manner thousands of women throughout the
Kingdom slept in unoccupied houses over census
night		[194]
The argument of the broken window pane[218]
A suffragette throwing a bag of flour at Mr. Asquith
in Chester		[260]
Re-Arrest of Mrs. Pankhurst at Woking, May 26,
1913		[312]
Mrs. Pankhurst and Christabel in the garden of
Christabel's home in Paris		[324]
"Arrested at the King's gate!" May, 1914[348]

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The author wishes to express her deep obligation to Rheta Childe Dorr for invaluable editorial services performed in the preparation of this volume, especially the American edition.

FOREWORD

The closing paragraphs of this book were written in the late summer of 1914, when the armies of every great power in Europe were being mobilised for savage, unsparing, barbarous warfare—against one another, against small and unaggressive nations, against helpless women and children, against civilisation itself. How mild, by comparison with the despatches in the daily newspapers, will seem this chronicle of women's militant struggle against political and social injustice in one small corner of Europe. Yet let it stand as it was written, with peace—so-called, and civilisation, and orderly government as the background for heroism such as the world has seldom witnessed. The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood, and for these deeds of horror and destruction men have been rewarded with monuments, with great songs and epics. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness. Time alone will reveal what reward will be allotted to the women.