My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst is an autobiography written in 1914 at the end of the First World War and around the time of the Women’s Sufferance movement. Emmeline Pankhurst was a woman’s rights activist born in July of 1858 and was surrounded by family, friends and acquaintances who were into radical politics (BBC n.d.). Married to the author of the Married Women’s Property Acts of 1870 and 1882, Pankhurst was considered fortunate to have a lot of support in her Women’s rights ideologies, including her husband, since not a lot of people, especially men in the end of the 1800’s and beginning of the 1900’s believed women should have equal rights and as many rights as men (BBC n.d.).
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During this time in England, they were between conservatism and liberalism. Lord Salisbury remained the Prime Minister and the Liberal party was finding ways to make it back to the top. The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), which Emmeline founded and her daughter was a part of, was created in 1903 (Trueman 2000). This was a huge step for the liberal party to make their way back into parliament. In her autobiography, she talked about different methods used to get the attention from parliament; using polite arguments was not enough to get their concerns addressed, so they moved to more aggressive means by rioting and striking. These methods proved useful because it gained the attention they needed from the parliament. Unfortunately, the WSPU did not have much popularity within the working class because they perceived the WSPU as only wanting political equality instead of total equality (Trueman 2000). Eventually with more campaigning and advocating, it became clearer what the WSPU’s true intentions were, and that was to get total equality between men and women in
As a little girl, Pankhurst started developing her own thoughts that molded her into …show more content…
During this time in England, they were between conservatism and liberalism. Lord Salisbury remained the Prime Minister and the Liberal party was finding ways to make it back to the top. The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), which Emmeline founded and her daughter was a part of, was created in 1903 (Trueman 2000). This was a huge step for the liberal party to make their way back into parliament. In her autobiography, she talked about different methods used to get the attention from parliament; using polite arguments was not enough to get their concerns addressed, so they moved to more aggressive means by rioting and striking. These methods proved useful because it gained the attention they needed from the parliament. Unfortunately, the WSPU did not have much popularity within the working class because they perceived the WSPU as only wanting political equality instead of total equality (Trueman 2000). Eventually with more campaigning and advocating, it became clearer what the WSPU’s true intentions were, and that was to get total equality between men and women in