Pankhurst, Emmeline (1858-1928)

The English suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, often referred to simply as Mrs. Pankhurst, c. 1908. Founder of the Women's Social and Political Union, she was arrested several times for her sometimes violent campaigning, undertaking hunger strikes and enduring forcible feeding. During World War I, she abandoned her militancy and encouraged the industrial recruitment of women.

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.

When World War I broke out she called off the suffrage campaign and went recruiting in the USA. She died only a month before Stanley Baldwin's Representation of the People Act gave women full equality in the franchise.

Her autobiography The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst was published in 1935.