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Pankhurst, Emmeline Emmeline Pankhurst wearing prison clothes and a cap, looking to the side. Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst, left, and her mother, Emmeline Pankhurst, stand side by side wearing hats and formal clothing in front of a brick wall and a flag. Emmeline Pankhurst seated at a desk, holding a newspaper titled Britannia, wearing a polka-dot dress and looking toward the camera.
Black and white photo of women and girls in early 1900s dress holding a banner reading "I WISH MA COULD VOTE" at a suffrage march, with American flags in the background.
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Emmeline Pankhurst

British suffragist
Also known as: Emmeline Goulden
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Emmeline Pankhurst (born July 14 [see Researcher’s Note], 1858, Manchester, England—died June 14, 1928, London) was a militant champion of woman suffrage whose 40-year campaign achieved complete success in the year of her death, when British women obtained full equality in the voting franchise. Her daughter Christabel Harriette Pankhurst also was prominent in the woman suffrage movement. In 1879 Emmeline Goulden married Richard Marsden Pankhurst, lawyer, friend of John Stuart Mill, and author of the...

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