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Emmeline Pankhurst 1858–1928 née Goulden Eng. suffragist

Pankhurst, Emmeline

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
English suffragette . Founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903, she launched the militant suffragette campaign in 1905. In 1926 she joined the Conservative Party and was a prospective Parliamentary candidate for Whitechapel. Mrs Pankhurst was born in Manchester, the daughter of Robert Goulden, an early advocate of women's suffrage. In 1879 she married Richard Marsden Pankhurst (died 1898), a lawyer, and they served together on the committee that promoted the Married Women's Property Act. From 1906, as a militant, she was frequently arrested and in 1913 was sentenced to three years' imprisonment in connection with the blowing up of Lloyd George's house at Walton. She was supported by her daughters Christabel Pankhurst (1880–1958), political leader of the movement, and Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960). The latter was imprisoned nine times under the ‘Cat and Mouse Act’, and was a pacifist in World War I. When World War I broke out she called off the suffrage campaign…
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Full text Article (1) Pankhurst, Emmeline [née Goulden]

From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
She was the eldest of ten children of a prosperous Manchester calico printer. Her parents were radical reformers, and she attended her first suffrage meeting with her mother at the age of 14. She was educated at boarding schools in Manchester and Paris. In 1879 she married Dr Richard Pankhurst, a…
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Full text Article Pankhurst, Emmeline (1858–1928).

From The Oxford Companion to British History
*suffragette leader. A superb platform speaker with a fine physical presence, Emmeline Pankhurst came to symbolize the women's struggle for the parliamentary vote. Her personal experience of hunger strikes and forcible feeding in prison inspired many women to support the women's cause. Emmeline…
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Full text Article RIGHTS

From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
Either none of mankind possesses genuine rights, or everyone shares them equally; whoever votes against another’s rights, whatever his religion, colour or sex, forswears his own. In Vansittart (ed.), Voices of the Revolution (1989). We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created…
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Full text Article Emmeline Pankhurst 1858–1928

From The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
English suffragette leader; founder of the Women's Social and Political Union, 1903; mother of Christabel pankhurst There is something that Governments care far more for than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy…I say to the…
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English suffragette, organizer of the Women’s Social and Political Union. A militant campaigner, she was frequently imprisoned and undertook hunger strikes. During World War I she turned her attention to the industrial mobilization of women. Women never took a single step forward without being…
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Full text Article Pankhurst, Emmeline (1858 to 1928)

From Chambers Dictionary of World History
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Full text Article Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928)

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Full text Article Pankhurst

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Speaker's badge for the Suffragette meeting in Hyde Park, July 23rd 1910 (embroidered silk and metal) (b/w photo)
Artist: English School, (20th century) Location: Private Collection Credit: Speaker's badge for the Suffragette meeting in Hyde Park, July 23rd 1910 (embroidered silk and metal) (b/w photo), English School, (20th century) / Private Collection / The Bridgeman Art Library Date: 1910 Medium: …
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Full text Article Suffragette

From Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
The suffragette movement in Britain dates from the early 20th century, when women organized a campaign of demonstrations and militant action in their bid for a right to vote. The campaign was prompted by the repeated defeat of women's suffrage bills in Parliament in the 19th century, and was led by…
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