Emmeline Pankhurst

by

Joyce Hemsley

Series of famous
British names:

EMMELINE PANKHURST
British Suffragette,
born Emmeline Goulden,
Manchester - eighteen
fifty-eight. She married
Richard Marsden Pankhurst,
a Barrister. Emmeline,
her husband and two
daughters, Christabel
and Sylvia, gave their all
to win the fight for
"equality for women."

Women actually used violence
and were sent to prison, in an
attempt to be given the right
to vote...even went on hunger
strike whilst in prison.
The story of their fight and
the amazing work they carried
out lives on. They were called
The Suffragettes. By the year
nineteen-fourteen, more than
one thousand women had been
imprisoned.

I am at this moment using a
magnifying glass to enlarge a
picture taken in London...
women marching with banners held
high. Slogans such as -
"We demand the Right to Serve."

EMMELINE PANKHURST died in
London, nineteen twenty-eight,
just after women were granted
the right to vote in Britain.
Women were to be given the same
rights as men as far as the law
was concerned. A great
breakthrough in history.

Brave Emmeline Pankhurst took
this cause to her heart, and was
prepared to go to prison for her
beliefs. We thank her and her
family now and forevermore.

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