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Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928)
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Purvis, June |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | Book Name: The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign |
| Abstract | This chapter focuses on the life of the suffragette leader, Emmeline Pankhurst, who founded the Women’s Social and Political Union in 1903 and the factors that made her a ‘militant’ leader of the suffragette campaign for the granting of the parliamentary vote to women in Edwardian Britain. Discussion explores Pankhurst’s personality and character, her family background and upbringing, her support for liberalism, her radical marriage and membership of the Independent Labour Party, as well as the repeated failure of the Liberal Government of the day, led by Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, a staunch anti-suffragist, to grant votes to women. Her life as a mother and sister during the suffrage campaign is also explored, including the death of her surviving son Harry and her sister Mary who had often acted as ‘mother’ to the Pankhurst children when the widowed Emmeline was away from home. During the First World War, Pankhurst called a temporary suspension of militant action and encouraged suffragettes to engage in war work as a way to win their enfranchisement. Without a sufficient private income and needing to find employment after the war ended, she went to Canada where she was employed by the Canadian Government as a lecturer in social hygiene. She was not directly involved in the negotiations for the 1918 Representation of the People Act that granted certain categories of women aged 30 and more than 30 the vote, although there were rumours that Lloyd George had promised her that we would bring forward such an Act. In 1925 she returned to England and distressed at the extent of industrial unrest, decided to stand as a candidate for the Conservative Party. She died three years later, before a general election was held. Her political trajectory – through liberalism, socialism, the women’s revolution and then conservatism – is fascinating to observe. Nonetheless, it is her feminist days as a ‘militant’ suffragette that are remembered and commemorated and, in particular, her call to women to be assertive and rise up for their democratic rights. |
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| Ending Page | 42 |
| Page Count | 18 |
| Starting Page | 25 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003023296-3 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2020-12-30 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign History Children Women War Liberalism Suffragette Surviving Grant Militant Pankhurst Emmeline |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
