Emmeline Pankhurst Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Emmeline Pankhurst (born Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote. In 1999 Time named Pankhurst as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, stating: "she shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back." She was widely criticised for her militant tactics, and historians disagree about their effectiveness, but her work is recognised as a crucial element in achieving women's suffrage in Britain.Born in Moss Side, Manchester, to politically active parents, Pankhurst was introduced at the age of 8 to the women's suffrage movement. Although her parents encouraged her to prepare herself for life as a wife and mother, she attended the École Normale de Neuilly in Paris. In 1878 she married Richard Pankhurst, a barrister 24 years her senior known for supporting women's right to vote; they had five children over the next ten years. He supported her activities outside the home, and she founded and became involved with the Women's Franchise League, which advocated suffrage for both married and unmarried women. When that organisation broke apart, she tried to join the left-leaning Independent Labour Party through her friendship with socialist Keir Hardie but was initially refused membership by the local branch on account of her sex. While working as a Poor Law Guardian, she was shocked at the harsh conditions she encountered in Manchester's workhouses.In 1903, five years after her husband died, Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), an all-women suffrage advocacy organisation dedicated to "deeds, not words." The group identified as independent from – and often in opposition to – political parties. It became known for physical confrontations: its members smashed windows and assaulted police officers. Pankhurst, her daughters, and other WSPU activists were sentenced to repeated prison sentences, where they staged hunger strikes to secure better conditions. As Pankhurst's oldest daughter Christabel took leadership of the WSPU, antagonism between the group and the government grew. Eventually the group adopted arson as a tactic, and more moderate organisations spoke out against the Pankhurst family. In 1913 several prominent individuals left the WSPU, among them Pankhurst's daughters Adela and Sylvia. Emmeline was so furious that she "gave [Adela] a ticket, £20, and a letter of introduction to a suffragette in Australia, and firmly insisted that she emigrate," in which she complied. The family rift was never healed. Sylvia became a socialist.With the advent of the First World War, Emmeline and Christabel called an immediate halt to militant suffrage activism in support of the British government's stand against the "German Peril." They urged women to aid industrial production and encouraged young men to fight, becoming promine
* Christabel Pankhurst, * Sylvia Pankhurst, * Francis Henry, * Adela Pankhurst, * Henry Francis
Parents
Sophia Jane Craine, Robert Goulden
Siblings
Mary Jane Clarke, Ada Bach, Edmund B Goulden, Walter A Goulden
Star Sign
Cancer
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There is something that governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property. And so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant, each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
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Fact
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Maternal grandmother of Richard Pankurst. Because Robert's mother refused to marry his father, Emmeline never spoke to her again.
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Activist for women's suffrage in England.
Self
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Year
Status
Character
Animated Weekly, No. 9
1916
Documentary short
Herself
Eighty Million Women Want - ?
1913
Herself
Archive Footage
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Suffragette: Looking Back, Looking Forward
2016
Video short
Herself
Les suffragettes, ni paillassons ni prostituées
2011
Documentary
Herself, leader of the British suffragette movement