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Emmeline Pankhurst biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Emmeline Pankhurst

Author Name:

Emmeline Pankhurst

Born As:

Emmeline Goulden

Other Names:

Born:

1858

Died:

1928




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Social activist                          
Selected Works:

The Powers and Duties of Poor Law Guardians in Times of Exceptional Distress - 1895.
The Present Position of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in: The Case for Women’s Suffrage, hg.v. B. Villiers - 1907.
The Importance of the Vote - 1908.
Suffrages Speeches from the Dock - 1912.
My own Story - 1914, Reissued by Greenwood Publishing Group, 1985.                          
Husband Dr. Richard Pankhurst, four children, Christabel, Estelle Sylvia, a son Francis Henry and Adela.

Francis Henry died of diptheria, and Emmeline had another son, and named him Francis Henry in honour of her dead son.                          
One of the founders of the British suffragette movement.

Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century is a compilation of the 20th century's 100 most influential people, published in Time magazine in 1999.

Emmeline Pankhurst, age 54 in 1912, went to prison 12 times that year.                           
The British government started to implement voting rights for women, across the then United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in March 1918. While the Representation of the People Act 1918 only gave voting rights to women over 30, and that with a property qualification, while all men over 21 were enfranchised, the Suffragettes nevertheless saw it as a great victory. In November 1918, women over 21 were given the right to become Members of Parliament -  meaning women could be MPs and not be allowed to vote. In 1928, women finally achieved equal voting rights to men in the United Kingdom.

New Zealand, was the first fully Independent country to give woman universal suffrage in 1893.

Women's suffrage was granted by the Corsican Republic of 1755 whose Constitution stipulated a national representative assembly elected by all inhabitants over the age of 25, both women, if unmarried or widowed and men. Suffrage was ended when France annexed the island in 1769.