Suffragette, Social Reformer. She is remembered as one of the main organizers of the Suffragette movement in Britain. She was 14 when she attended her first public meeting about votes for women. With her daughter, Christabel, she organized increasingly militant campaigns, which led to her imprisonment in 1908 for three months for breach of the peace. Later imprisonments in 1912 and 1913 led to her campaign of hunger-striking. During World War I, militant demonstrations were suspended, and, in 1918, the first laws were passed to give women the vote. Joining the Conservative Party in the 1920s, she stood for Parliament herself, but died two weeks before the passage on July 2, 1928, of the 1928 Act, which gave women over the age of 21 full voting rights. She was honored with a statue in Victoria Tower Gardens, next to the Houses of Parliament in London.
Suffragette, Social Reformer. She is remembered as one of the main organizers of the Suffragette movement in Britain. She was 14 when she attended her first public meeting about votes for women. With her daughter, Christabel, she organized increasingly militant campaigns, which led to her imprisonment in 1908 for three months for breach of the peace. Later imprisonments in 1912 and 1913 led to her campaign of hunger-striking. During World War I, militant demonstrations were suspended, and, in 1918, the first laws were passed to give women the vote. Joining the Conservative Party in the 1920s, she stood for Parliament herself, but died two weeks before the passage on July 2, 1928, of the 1928 Act, which gave women over the age of 21 full voting rights. She was honored with a statue in Victoria Tower Gardens, next to the Houses of Parliament in London.
Bio by: David Conway
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IN LOVING MEMORY OF
WIFE OF R.M. PANKHURST, MD
AT REST
Family Members
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