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MY OWN STORY - EMMELINE PANKHURST TASCHENBUCH

Emmeline Pankhurst was born in 1858 in Manchester  into a politically active family. She became
interested in politics at a young age and a supporter of women¿s suffrage by the age of
fourteen. As a teenager she attended school in Paris and on her return to Manchester she met
and married Richard Pankhurst  a barrister twenty-four years her senior. Over the next ten
years they had five children. Emmeline¿s interest in politics and involvement in the suffrage
movement continued to develop and she was a member of the Women¿s Franchise League and later
the Independent Labour Party. In 1903  frustrated by the lack of progress on securing votes for
women  Pankhurst and several colleagues founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) 
a militant organisation devoted to securing votes for women by direct action. For the following
twenty years  members of the WSPU  led by Pankhurst  endured prison and hunger strikes in their
struggle to win the right to vote. Their activities were called to a halt by the start of the
First World War but in 1918  the government gave voting rights to women over thirty. Emmeline
died on 14 June 1928  shortly after women were granted equal voting rights with men.

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