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Emmeline Pankhurst

English suffragist · United Kingdom · Politicians · Lived 1858 to 1928 · aged 69

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She turned the fight for women's suffrage into a war: smashed windows, hunger strikes, arson, forced feedings. The tactics were condemned as too extreme, but in 1918 British women voted.

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1928Died14 June 19281914“Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was so great a favourite with my mother that she used it continually as a source of bedtime stories for our fascinated ears.”In their wordsMy Own Story (1914)

“The education of the English boy, then as now, was considered a much more serious matter than the education of the English boy's sister.”In their wordsMy Own Story (1914)

“One night when I lay in my little bed waiting for sleep to overtake me.”In their wordsMy Own Story (1914)

“The first time I went into the place I was horrified to see little girls seven and eight years old on their knees scrubbing the cold stones of the long corridors ...”In their wordsMy Own Story (1914)

“The horsemen rode directly into the procession, scattering the women right and left. But still the women would not turn back.”In their wordsMy Own Story (1914)

1912Hunger Strike MedalAward1886“The following year (1886) found us living in London, and, as usual, interesting ourselves with labour matters and other social movements.”In their wordsMy Own Story (1914)

1858Born15 July 1858

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Emmeline Pankhurst, seated (1913)Emmeline Pankhurst, seated (1913)1908 E Pankhurst, accompanied by Minnie Baldock and Gladice Keevil1908 E Pankhurst, accompanied by Minnie Baldock and Gladice KeevilEmmeline Pankhurst addresses crowdEmmeline Pankhurst addresses crowdPress release written by Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst upon her rearrest by Scotland YardPress release written by Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst upon her rearrest by Scotland YardA suffragette meeting, with WSPU leadersA suffragette meeting, with WSPU leadersAll London in Hyde ParkAll London in Hyde ParkBarbara Wylie 1912 (22913811066) (cropped)Barbara Wylie 1912 (22913811066) (cropped)Barbara Wylie and Emmeline Pankhurst, 1912. (22913811066)Barbara Wylie and Emmeline Pankhurst, 1912. (22913811066)

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  1. Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.

    1914, My Own Story (1914), Own words

  2. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was so great a favourite with my mother that she used it continually as a source of bedtime stories for our fascinated ears.

    1914, My Own Story (1914), Own words

  3. The rest of the story reveals one of those ghastly blunders which justice not infrequently makes.

    1914, My Own Story (1914), Own words

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Hunger Strike Medal1912

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Born in Manchester in 1858 to politically active parents, Pankhurst entered the suffrage movement at sixteen and spent years in moderate advocacy, founding the Women's Franchise League and working as a Poor Law Guardian where workhouse conditions shook her. In 1903 she founded the Women's Social and Political Union, an all-women group committed to "deeds, not words" - physical confrontations, window-smashing, assaults on police. She and her daughters endured prison, hunger strikes, force-feedings. The WSPU escalated to bombings and arson, splintering the movement; in 1913 Pankhurst exiled her daughter Adela to Australia in fury, a rift never mended. When war came in 1914 she pivoted hard, leading a "Right to Serve" march and urging women into factories and men into trenches. The 1918 Act gave women over thirty the vote; she joined the Conservatives, ran for Parliament, and died in June 1928, weeks before the law extended suffrage to all women over twenty-one.

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United Kingdom
Category
Politicians
Type
Politician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1858 to 1928 · aged 69

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