Until 1912,
Votes for Women, edited and financed by
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and
Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence, was the official newspaper of the WSPU. The Pethick-Lawrences were expelled from the WSPU in 1912, as they objected to the militant tactics that were beginning to be used by
suffragettes, and thereafter they published
Votes for Women independently. driving in 1912 The replacement WSPU newspaper,
The Suffragette cost 1
d, and was initially edited by
Christabel Pankhurst, daughter of
Emmeline Pankhurst. The first issue was published on 17 October 1912,
The Suffragettes business manager
Agnes Lake often liaised with Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst about improving the publications content and layout during its run. Princess
Sophia Duleep Singh lived in a grace and favour apartment in
Hampton Court Palace and had a pitch outside where she sold
The Suffragette. Copies were also sold at public events like the
Henley Royal Regatta in July 1913. In 1913, a memorial issue was released commemorating the death of
Emily Wilding Davison. selling
The Suffragette outside Hampton Court Palace. On 30 April 1913, the newspaper business manager Agnes Lake was arrested alongside
Beatrice Sanders,
Rachel Barrett,
Harriet Kerr and
Flora Drummond, in a police raid of the WSPU headquarters. On 2nd May 1913, Sidney Granville Drew, the managing director of Victoria House Printing Company who printed the newspaper, was arrested. Another subsequent printer, Edgar Whitely, was also arrested and was charged for inciting people to commit crime and join the WSPU. To avoid arrest, editor Christabel Pankhurst fled to France, but continued to provided editorial lead to
The Suffragette through visitors such as
Annie Kenney and
Ida Wylie who crossed the Channel for her advice. and
Christabel Pankhurst, editors of
The Suffragette|264x264px After the raids on the WSPU headquarters and the publishers, The paper supported the war effort, advocated to pause the campaign for women’s suffrage,When the
Representation of the People Act 1918 was passed,
Britannia produced its final copy on 20 December 1918. == See also ==