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Emmeline Pankhurst Birth
Emmeline Pankhurst, was the daughter of Robert Goulden, and Sophia Craine, she was born in 1858 in Manchester. Her father had strong political beliefs and Emmelines monther, Sophia, was also into politics, always taking Emmeline to womens suffrage meetings, ever since she was quite young. -
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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First introduced to womens suffrage
Emmeline Pankhurst was introduced to Women's suffrage movement at a very young age. Her first attendance at one was at the age of 14 with her mother Sophia Jane Craine. -
Emmeline and Richard got married
Soon after Emmeline returned to Manchester in 1878, she met the lawyer, Richard Pankhurst. Richard also had a strong feeling for women's suffrage. It was an instant click, they both had strong feelings for the same things in politics. And they both agreed to get married in eccles. -
Birth of Christabel Pankhurst
Christabel Pankhurst was the oldest daughter out of the three. She was a suffragette born in Manchester, England, on the 22nd September, 1880. Co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union. In 1914 she became a supporter of the war against Germany. After the war she moved to the United States, where she worked as an evangelist for the Second Adventist movement. -
Birth of Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst was born in Manchester, on the 5th of May 1882. She was a daughter of Dr. Richard Pankhurst and Emmeline Pankhurst. She was a member of the Independent Labour Party and much worried with women's rights. In 1906, she began to work full-time with the Women's Social and Political Union with her sister and her mother, at her side. -
Birth of Adela Pankhurst
Adela Pankhurst was born on 19th of June 1885. She was a British-Australian suffragette, political organiser, and co-founder of the Communist Party of Australia and the Australia First Movement. Following separation from her family, Adela immigrated to Australia in 1914. She was recruited during World War I as an organiser for the Women's Peace Army in Melbourne by Vida Goldstein. -
Women's Franchise League Started
The Women's Franchise League was an organisation founded by Emmeline Pankhurst together with her husband Richard Pankhurst in 1889, fourteen years before the creation of the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903, also created by Emmeline and Richard Pankhurst. The organisation's main achievement was to secure the vote for women in local elections. -
The Right For Married Women To Vote
The league wins the right for married women to vote in elections for local offices, but not the right for them to vote for the House of Commons. This decision that was made has truly changed the world, if it was not made all of the women in this world would have no say in what they believed -
Richard Pankhurst Death
He was born in May 1834. He took a strong notice in legal improvement. He was mainly involved in changing those laws that were against women. Richard was a legal adviser to Lydia Becker and the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage. The following year he was in charge for drafting the first bill for the women, to Parliament. Richard also wrote the Married Women's Property Act of 1870. All of a sudden Richard started getting terrible stomach pains, it turns out he got stomach ulcers. -
National Women's Social And Political Union Started
Emmeline Pankhurst found the National Women’s Social and Political Union in Manchester, on the 16th of March 1903. The saying 'Votes For Women', was also formed in 1903, with ladies every where from he National Women's Social And Political Union, with a sign around the neck, and a partition slip in their hand all over England. -
Emmeline Death
On Thursday 14 June 1928 Pankhurst died, at the age of 69 She was buried in Brompton Cemetery in London. In the end Emmeline achieved what she set out for, women over 30 could vote, for what the believed.
