Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst was the leader of the British Suffrage movement. She managed this campaign with the assistance of her two daughters: Christabel and Sylvia in order to be granted the right to vote for women in Great Britain. She was born in Manchester and studied at the Ecole Normale in Paris in 1898. She married Dr. Richard Marsden Pankhurst who also assisted her in being granted female equality. By 1889. she was one of the founders of the Women’s Franchise League and was also a member of the NUWSS in the Manchester branch.

Emmeline Pankhurst was the most evident campaigner for the women’s right to vote and was recognized as a heroine during the early twentieth century. In her early years, socialism interested her. She became a militant suffragette and became a Conservative Party candidate.

Through Emmeline and her children’s leadership and the actions of the Women’s Social and Political Union(WSPU), women were finally granted the same voting rights as men. Emmeline’s military tactics and ambitious ideas set an example for other suffragettes and a drastic change in nations all over the world. Britain was one of the first few countries to be grant equal voting rights for women.