The Vote (newspaper)

In 1907 Emmeline Pankhurst announced that the Annual Conference of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) would be cancelled and the organisation's committee replaced by one that she would hand-pick.

This led to key members of the WSPU writing to Mrs Pankhurst insisting that the constitution be honoured, and the Conference be allowed to go ahead.

[1] Those members were Charlotte Despard, Edith How-Martyn, Caroline Hodgson, Alice Abadam, Teresa Billington-Greig, Marion Coates-Hansen, Irene Miller,[2] Bessie Drysdale and Maude Fitzherbert.

[3] However, sales fell dramatically and the newspaper only continued to be published because it was subsidized by Elizabeth Knight and Helena Normanton.

[3] In 1933 Knight was injured in a road accident, dying as a result, and the newspaper folded soon thereafter.