| Birth: | Jul. 4, 1858 | | Death: | Jun. 14, 1928 | 
Leading suffragette, who was 14 when she attended her first public meeting about votes for women. With her daughter Christabel she organised increasingly militant campaigns, which led to her imprisonment in 1908 for three months for breach of the peace. Lster imprisonments in 1912 and 1913 led to her campaign of hunger-striking. During WWI militnat demonstrations were suspended, and in 1918 the first laws were passed to give wonmen the vote. Joining the Conservative Party in the 1920s, she stood for Parliament herself, but died shortly after the passage of the 1928 Act which gave women full voting rights. (bio by: David Conway)
Search Amazon for Emmeline Pankhurst | | | Burial:
Brompton Cemetery
London
Greater London, England |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Jan 01, 2001
Find A Grave Memorial# 1927 |
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