A review of “The Arch-Priestess of Militancy: My Own Story,” in The Nation, 99, 2580, December 10, 1914, pp. 688-89.

In the following review, the critic refutes Pankhurst's arguments in My Own Story.

Mrs. Pankhurst begins [My Own Story] with the apparently unconscious admission that “those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress”; no one will doubt that when a “struggle” is on she will be eager to be there. The reader who sets out to take her good-naturedly will find the story amusing and entertaining. Mrs. Pankhurst is clever and writes with a facile pen, and she flings forth charges of “duplicity,” “mendacity,” and “perjury,” calls the judges “biassed,” Asquith “treacherous,” Lloyd George “slippery,” and both of them “scoundrels” with a grace and ease that betray practice. The numerous illustrations, mostly of Mrs. Pankhurst at the critical...