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4 days ago · Emmeline Pankhurst campaigned fearlessly for women's rights for all women – aristocratic ladies, factory workers, conservatives, socialists.
1 day ago · PlaysWellWithLetters is a blogorrheal notebook of Nonsense in rhyming metres accompanying often-inconsequential sequencial graphics all issuing from the hands and/or minds of Sgt. N. ("Jim") Smithe-Magee, amateur author/illustrator whose several books are available online from Politics & Prose Bookstore under the nom de charade Ulysses Poe.
1 day ago · Millicent Fawcett was the leader of the peaceful suffragists; Emmeline, Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst were the leaders of the militant suffragettes. Many women believed that militance was needed to achieve their goal quickly, and got themselves into prison as soon as they got out of it!
2 days ago · One major division, especially in Britain, was between suffragists, who sought to create change constitutionally, and suffragettes, led by English political activist Emmeline Pankhurst, who in 1903 formed the more militant Women's Social and Political Union.
3 days ago · 1. IDEA would like to extend its heartfelt gratitude to Elizabeth Filleul for translating this enormously important book. IDEA also acknowledges the indefatigable Professor Richard Pankhurst for his lifetime commitment to Ethiopian scholarship. 2.
5 days ago · Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the British suffrage movement, had been repeatedly arrested and endured forced feeding during her hunger strikes in prison, leaving her weak and in ill health.
3 days ago · Emmeline Pankhurst was the most important person in the Suffrage movement in Great Britain. She was jailed at least 10 times, often brutally treated in prison and force-fed in prison hospitals. Her daughters, Christabel and Sylvia, were also very active in the WSPU.
