Emmeline Pankhurst's Suffrage In Britain

Improved Essays
Although she was much criticized for her tactics, her fight is recognized as a crucial effort in achieving women's suffrage in Britain. However, historians disagree about the effect of her activity on public support for the cause.

From my point of view, Emmeline Pankhurst was one of the most inspirational women I know because she not only risked constantly her life due to violent police oppression, every time she was in prison or suffered alarming hunger strikes, also she worried about the disadvantaged and she was a poor law guardian in workhouses.
In my opinion, Emmeline was a good person regardless of their family relationships with some of their daughters considering that she adopted four children even being widow and with no wealth.

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Suffragette Coursework

    • 1059 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Suffragette coursework write-up In this essay I will be talking about three different representations and their accuracy, balance and completeness. They are as followed. Representation one is an A level textbook that has the suffrage movement written from 1832-1931.…

    • 1059 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Megan Shu Shu 1 Ms. Thurtle English 1AS November 7, 2014 Susan B. Anthony’s Fight for Women’s Rights Susan B. Anthony stood at the door of the voting room, taking a look at the inside of the room. The room was grey, small, there were no windows, and only one way out. The room was full of people concentrating on filling out their ballots. As she walked in, everyone took a moment and looked at her strangely, wondering what a women was doing voting. She had prepared to vote a long time ago and she was to do so.…

    • 1118 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    From the 1890’s to the 1920’s, the Progressive Era consisted of many changes in social stances and political methods in the United States. There were numerous individuals who were determined to see reform, including Florence Kelley. Florence Kelley deserves a place in history because she was such an inspirational person who had accomplished giving women and children better rights, especially in the work force. Florence Kelley grew up in a political family which led her to become the person that she was. She had once heard about the abolishment of slavery and the women’s right movement which led her to helping women and children gain the rights that they deserve.…

    • 998 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    On August 18 1920, women could finally vote. No longer were they treated the same as children, the tender of their children and house, the cook, the cleaner. Liberty and freedom was granted to what was perceived as the ‘fairer sex’. On that date, the 19th Amendment passed. But what was the long road to that amendment?…

    • 452 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Susan B. Anthony was born in the bleak winter of 1820. She was brought up in her family as a Quaker, who believed in equality for men and women. She was able to develop a feminist sense of morals and justice through the Religious Society of Friends. Because Anthony’s father was a sixth generation Quaker, she had the privilege of education. She attended a private boarding school in Philadelphia.…

    • 1272 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    SUSAN B. ANTHONY 3 Susan B. Anthony: Equality Starts With One Voice Women did not always have the right to vote. It wasn’t until a woman named Susan B. Anthony devoted her life to fighting for the rights of women that the issue of women voting was ever truly thought about. On top of driving people to think about the rights of women, Anthony also drove people to consider the rights of African Americans and fought for temperance. Susan B. Anthony, as an evangelist, believed in equality for all people and devoted her life to fighting for abolition and woman’s rights.…

    • 1618 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    The Nineteenth Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920 and gave the women of the United States the right to vote. The bill was introduced in the 1870 's to congress by a woman named Susan B. Anthony and Senator Aaron A. Sargent, but it would take years of lobbying by several organizations and activists for it to gain support of both the American public and the federal government. This fight for equality was known as the Woman 's suffrage movement, which was a breakaway from a larger one that concentrated on many goals for American women. It was the largest reform movement during America 's Progressive era. The first gathering devoted to achieving equal rights for women was held in New York and called the Seneca Convention of 1848.…

    • 1323 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Great Essays

    Road to Women 's Suffrage On the day July 19, 1848 a meeting was in Seneca Falls, New York. This meeting was organized by a group of local Quakers and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, an abolitionist and leading figure of the women 's rights movement. The meeting was held in six sessions, and lasted two days. Many subjects were debated, including the role of women in society and their right to vote.…

    • 1867 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    When I began studying the Progressive era, I was unaware of what this era was really all about. Although my recollection was entertained by the growth in immigration at Ellis Island in New York City and also at Angel Island in San Francisco, California. I recalled the stories of factory workers who lost their lives or were working under horrendous conditions and I recall the employment of child laborers. I now know the Progressive era was much more than I ever knew existed and is defined as a period of great economic expansion between 1900-1920 's more people lived in the cities and towns rather than in rural areas. The growth of industry and the consumer marketplace brought about an influx of jobs and great growth into the major cities and…

    • 711 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    As Jane Addams wrote this source on “Why women should vote, 1915”, she directed an issue that women faced during the early twentieth century, known as woman suffrage. In this historical document, Jane Addams explained the importance of a woman’s right to vote. First, she makes a claim that for all centuries it’s evident that a woman’s role is to take care of everything pertaining to her home, including her family. However, Addams explained that women (in general) cannot fully maintain their role if they’re not handling business outside of their homes. For instance, she illustrated events that have taken place in Chicago, Italy, and other countries that stated the importance of a woman’s need to vote in society (Modern History Sourcebook: Jane…

    • 867 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    While the men between 1776 and 1861 wanted to avoid getting the women the right to vote, women fought long and hard until they proved to everyone that they achieved what they always have wanted. During this time period, women were looked down upon and were able to do only the bare minimum. Women such as Lucretia Mott, the Grimke sisters, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Abigail Adams became advocates of women getting the vote. Adams wrote so many letters to her husband, John Adams, explaining and trying to get him to understand why women getting the vote was so important. I think that women made a significant progress for women 's suffrage because women made it possible for multiple voting.…

    • 1494 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Elizabeth Blackwell Essay

    • 1690 Words
    • 7 Pages

    She held lectures and argued the rights women should be getting. Her speeches diligently focused on how both genders should be equal. No matter how much hate surrounded her and the backlash she faced, there was no way she was going to back down from her stance in the idea. Her activism increased the amount of people to notice and take ideas from her. The life of this individual shows how one idea and one person could result into an everlasting…

    • 1690 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    It took over 70 years for women to finally be given a voice and the right to vote. The 19th amendment helped the women of America become who they are today. Without the Women’s Suffrage Movement, America would be a different place. The women’s suffrage movement all started in the year 1848 where the women were treated as a prized possession in front of a guess, but behind closed doors, they were mentally and physically abused.…

    • 1122 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Well, Pankhursts voice was heard on November 13th, 1913 When she delivered the speech to hundreds of people In Hartford, Connecticut. After years of silence, a voice submerged out of the dark cage of suppression and spoke out to the men and women expressing the worth and value and…

    • 975 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The short story Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer is a story about fear and life during the Apartheid movement in South Africa, more specifically Johannesburg, where the Author was born. As well as being historically accurate and showing the conflict of this time in a summarised form, it explains the Apartheid through a presumably white, rich family ( A Mother,Father and Son)which shows us a different perspective of this historical event. One character who I thought to be thought provoking was the Mother of the family. She helped us understand what it was like to live through the Apartheid as the reader presumably was not there. Also since the Mother did not have many bold/specific traits she was a relatable character and helped the audience to not stereotype the people living in the Apartheid.…

    • 957 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays