Emmeline Pankhurst
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Feminism, Feminists, Women’s Rights, Gender Issues, Sexism, Human Rights, Elections, Voting
- Curriculum: Women’s History, 20th & 21st Century European History, 19th Century European History, British History
Article abstract: Pankhurst fought to attain the vote for British women during the early years of the twentieth century, organizing the militant Women’s Social and Political Union into an effective tool for obtaining women’s rights.
Early Life
Emmeline Pankhurst was born in Manchester, England, on July 14, 1858, the eldest daughter (third of eleven children) of Robert Goulden and his wife, née Sophia Jane Craine. Her father was the owner of a calico-printing and bleach works located outside Salford, the industrial twin city to Manchester....
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