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Image Number: 
JRL18043801
Reference Number: 
AEH/4/2/56
Series Title: 
Marjorie Garrod collection
Parent Work Title: 
Letter from Emmeline Pankhurst to Annie Horniman
Creator: 
Pankhurst, Emmeline, 1858-1928
Creator Role: 
Author
Publication Details: 
1911-03-05
Page/Sheet: 
1
Description: 
From the suffragette, and joint founder of the Women's Social and Political Union, Emmeline Pankhurst. She congratulates Annie Horniman after her long struggle to obtain fair treatment [referring to the long dispute over the Gaiety drinks licence, which was finally resolved in Horniman's favour at this time]; hopes Horniman's theatre will continue to have artistic success and obtain financial success; praises her work in dramatic art, commenting, "[i]t is an added pleasure to me that you are a woman". Double page opening.
Language: 
English
Subject: 
Theatre
Subject: 
Theatres
Subject: 
Women--Suffrage
Subject: 
Women's rights
Category of Material: 
Archives
Sub-Category: 
Correspondence
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Paper
Time Period Covered: 
20th Century CE
People Covered: 
Horniman, Annie Elizabeth Fredericka, 1860-1937
Item Height: 
256 mm
Item Width: 
206 mm
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
Courtesy of the Pankhurst Family