Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence launched and co-edited the weekly journal Votes for Women with her husband, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, in 1907. The journal began as the official publication of the militant suffrage organisation, the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), but in 1912 the Pethick-Lawrences distanced themselves from the WSPU and began to publish it independently. During the first half of the twentieth century Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence published a number of suffragist pamphlets, many of them printed versions of speeches she had previously delivered. From 1908 to 1950, she wrote many letters to the editor on a wide variety of national and international political topics. Go to Orlando>