History VIPs: Emmeline Pankhurst 0750288507, 9780750288507

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Emmeline Pankhunt, afte-i- visiting a workhouse in Manchester.

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WHAT EMMELINE O\D NEXT

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In 1898, tragedy struck when moved to a cheaper house -and Richard Pankhurst died. This came got a job as a registrar. This work as a huge shock to Emmeline. She revealed more and more about now had to look after her family the terrible lives that some on her own, as well as deal with women led. the debt in which her husband,s

Emmeline began t o see how bws often made l-~ t e much more difficult ~or women than men Sh ' e now felt even more stron.ol b ) , t hat women .

. opinions could n eedecl thc vote• so t hat t hcir be l1ea.rd.

. parries "·ere Emmeline decided rh:.it po1'tncal l'k l un t ·e y to help her suffrage cause Th cam · · .• · cy were pa1gomg a.bout so many difl'. r rercnt t h'm.os th votes wr women d'd , b at \ l n t get enough publicir Vbeo politicians did ma ke promises . and y. speeches about suffra.oe h b ' noth'mg seemed to cWiange. So , she left the ILP and rrormed rhe omens Social and Political U nton . - a women-only group. The WSPU

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lRUE ~FALSE? NONE Of TH£ PANKHURSTS' DAUGHTERS WERE INVOLVED IN THE fIGHT FOR WOMEN'SVOTING RIGHTS.

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Cb.ristal,el (I880- I958),

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Adela (1.885-x961) 1111 l,ecame suffragettes. Christal,el and Sylvia 7 helped their mother to run tb.e \\ SPU. \

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another WSPU member heckled The act ion that the WSPU took MP Winston Churchill at a was designed to draw attention meeting in 1905, the crowd 1 to themselves and the suffrage was shocked. This wasn t how cause. They disrupted public women usually behaved. When meetings. They marched and the women raised a banner went on demonstrations. that read 'VOTES FOR WOMEN\ They even used violence. When they were arrested. Christabel Pankhurst and

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This was just the start. \Vhen po1·tttcians .. rrot women's prevented a law bein.u b passed ' ,

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