ABSTRACT
In early October 1912, the Pethick-Lawrences returned from Canada. On arrival at Clement’s Inn, they were warned that the Pankhursts were moving to oust them from the Union. Inside Clement’s Inn, the Pethick-Lawrences found that the WSPU’s offices had been repossessed by the landlord – during the previous week, the WSPU had completed the move, announced in June, to palatial new offices in Lincoln’s Inn House, Kingsway, a five-storey building constructed of Portland stone in Italian Renaissance style. The Pethick-Lawrences went to the new headquarters. There they found that no office space had been allotted to them, and that, in the corridors, conversations stopped as they passed by. The following day, the Pethick-Lawrences visited Mrs Pankhurst. She informed them that their connection with the Union was at an end. 1
