Emmeline Pankhurst

My clothes were mucky and weighed down with sweat. The dirty cell had a foul stench of garbage and rotten sewage which made it impossible to withstand. My family were supporters of women's rights ever since I was a little girl . I knew that I Emmeline Pankhurst wanted to make an impact and I would do everything in my power to do so. I could only recall waking up this morning in anticipation to finally make women's rights legal. Thinking that Friday the 23rd of 1912 would be the turning point in…

Women Strike for Peace (WSP), a female activist group formed at the height of the Cold War, transformed the American women from a passive victim of patriarchal militarism and politics into an active fighter for peace. By empowering the female voice in America, WSP played a vital role in ending the dangers that American families faced due to the Arms Race, and the beginnings of more peaceful relations between rival superpowers, America and the Soviet Union. Heated Cold War tensions between…

Society’s lack of developments to their cause, Emmeline Pankhurst decided to create the WSPU. The leader of the NUWSS, Millicent Fawcett, was a well-known pacifist. She centered her efforts on changing social conditions rather that using political action to gain the right to vote. She used strategies such as writing letters and publishing works in newspapers. Unfortunately these actions made little impact on England’s Government. Enter Emmeline Pankhurst, a women who was tired of the tactics the…

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,…

The woman who accompanied Christabel Pankhurst at the Manchester Free Hall. Annie Kenney was born into working class family that faced many financial struggles. Kenney began working at a local cotton mill at age ten, where she had her finger ripped off by…

Emmeline Pankhurst created drastic social change through her individual social and political activism and has changed the world forever. Emmeline fought for women’s right to gain the vote, changed gender stereotypes, encouraged and inspired women to be strong and have an education and allowed women to be treated equally to men. Social Change is when alterations occur in the social structure of society. These changes occur over time and create “changes in human interactions and relationships…

of the time so it is considered a primary source. The text called “Freedom or death” was realised on 13 November1913.It was a speech that Emmeline de Pankhurst spoke to the people of Hartford in Connecticut, near Boston, as a strong statement and a defence of what they did the suffragists. Emmeline de Pankhurst was born in Manchester in 1858 Emmeline Pankhurst and she was vastly influenced by her activist parents. With 20 years old she married with a lawyer who also supported the rights of women…

focuses on the lives of important figures throughout Britain at the time, such as Rudyard Kipling and Bertram Russell. Through Emmeline Pankhurst and Charlotte Despard, he also brings concurrent issues like women’s suffrage to the forefront, showing how the events…

The accomplishments the most influential women throughout history have achieved can sometimes seem like an unbearable task. Emmeline Pankhurst, Michelle Obama, Susan B. Anthony, Mother Teresa, Helen Keller, and Edith Nourse Rogers are just a few of the women that deserve to be celebrated for what they have contributed to. When one contributes to society, it may make a difference to the world. Throughout the 1800s, women didn’t have the right to vote and were denied numerous rights. Susan…

decisions made as an adolescent, and is happy with her decision. Also is Levinson’s theory, it states that will moving from adolescents to adulthood, they form a mentor, occupation and loving relationships. In regards to Paige, she forms a mentor, Emmeline Pankhurst, as she wants to live out a life similar to Pankhurst’s. She also forms an occupation as a tour guide in Greece, and a loving relationships with…