Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst was born in Manchester, England in 1858 and daughter of Robert Gouldren and Sophia Crane. Emmeline Pankhurst is one of most important and significant British women in history during the 19th century. As a British political activist, she is known for her headstrong, persistent leadership in the British women suffragette movement. Her childhood was consists of many political scenes, due to her parent’s interest (esp. her mother, Sophia, who supports women’s many rights) in running campaigns against slavery and the corn laws. Emmeline attended her first women’s suffrage meeting in 1872, hosted by veteran campaigner, Lydia Becker. Few years after graduating from her finishing school in Paris, becoming a svelte lady, Emmeline met Richard Pinehurst, who is a lawyer, committed socialist and also one strong advocate of women’s suffrage. After being married to each other, they decided to form and join rebel groups supporting women’s right to vote, fro example, they created The Independent Labor Party. She gave birth to four children: Christabel Pankhurst (1880), Sylvia Pankhurst (1882), Frank (1884) and Adela Pankhurst (1885). In 1886, she joined the Matchgirls Strike. In 1903, Emmeline got involved with Christabal Pankhurst, Sylia Pankhurst and Adela Pankhurst to establish the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). Her intention to form party was to recruit working class women into the struggle for the vote. The organization became infamous for its violent acts in an attempt to win the vote. Many of the activists were sent to prison and suffered hunger strikes, in attempt to be released. In 1917 Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst founded the Women’s Party., for its goal was to : “ (1) A fight to the finish with Germany. (2) More vigorous war measures to include drastic food rationing, more communal kitchens to reduce waste, and the closing down of nonessential industries to release labour for work on the land and in the factories. (3) A clean sweep of all officials of enemy blood or connections from Government departments. Stringent peace terms to include the dismemberment of the Hapsburg Empire." They also profoundly supported "equal pay for equal work, equal marriage and divorce laws, the same rights over children for both parents, equality of rights and opportunities in public service, and a system of maternity benefits." After the WW1, 1928, at last, Emmeline passed away on 14th of June in Hampstead.
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