biography
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Pankhurst, Emmeline
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née Goulden
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| lived:
| (1857–1928)
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| biography:
| Suffragette, born in Manchester, Greater Manchester, NW England, UK. In 1879 she married Richard Marsden Pankhurst (d.1898), a radical Manchester barrister who had been the author of the first women's suffrage bill in Britain and of the Married Women's Property Acts of 1870 and 1882. She founded the Women's Franchise League (1889), and in 1903, with her daughter Christabel Harriette (1880–1958), the Women's Social and Political Union. From 1905 she fought for women's suffrage by violent means, on several occasions being arrested and going on hunger strike. After the outbreak of World War 1, she worked instead for the industrial mobilization of women. Of her daughters and fellow workers, Dame Christabel turned later to preaching Christ's Second Coming; and Sylvia (1882–1960) diverged to pacificism, internationalism, and Labour politics. |
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