Emmeline Pankhurst Research Paper
Subject: Emmeline Pankhurst
Family Background/Early Life: “Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it.They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs”. This bold statement was said by Emmeline Pankhurst, feminist leader and warrior for women’s rights. Emmeline Goulden was born in Manchester, England in July 1858. She was the eldest of eleven children and was born into a family with tradition of radical politics. Her father’s name was Robert Goulden. He was a cashier and calico printer. Emmeline’s mother was Sophia Goulden.Both parents were abolitionists and they both supported female suffrage. When Emmeline …show more content…
was fourteen, her mother took her to her first women’s suffrage meeting. In 1879, she married Richard Pankhurst. Richard was a lawyer and he too supported the women’s suffrage movement. He authored the Married Woman’s Property Act of 1870 and 1882. This allowed women to keep earning or property acquired before and after marriage. He died unexpectedly in 1898. Richard’s death left Emmeline alone to take care of their five children including Christabel and Sylvia.
Career Overview:
Pankhurst briefly joined the Fabian society.Then she joined the Independent Labor Party.She held local offices as poor law guardian, as a school board member also paid registrar for births and deaths.In all positions, she observed interior positions of woman,legal and social oppression by men.
In 1906 Pankhurst directed the Women’s Social and Political Union(WSPU) activities from London.She campaigned against the Liberal Government Party’s candidates at elections.Pankhurst made three tours of the United States to lecture on woman suffrage.She visited United States of America, Canada, and Russia. She was chosen conservative candidate in 1926 for a London constituency,but health failed before election. In 1926 she joined conservative party with surprised many. She led a protest of three hundred women in 1910 to meet Prime minister Asquith who refused audience- female marchers treated brutally by police- incident called Black Friday. In 1908 she was arrested for trying to enter parliament to deliver a protest resolution to Prime …show more content…
Minister.
Significant Contribution: 1889 Emmeline founded Women’s Franchise League fought to allow married women to vote in local elections.
October 1903 she helped found the more militant Women’s Social and Political Union(WSPU). WSPU members were the 1st to be named “suffragettes”. Emmeline led WSPU-a passionate group of women who were willing to take arastic action (tied to railings,smashing windows). Pankhurst defended their militant tactics. The members were often arrested. In 1913 Christabel (daughter) took leadership of WPSU and tactics become increasingly militant. At the war’s outbreak in 1914,Pankhurst supported war efforts with her campaigning tactics. She announced a temporary truce in women’s suffrage campaign. The Government and suffragettes were at a truce and political prisoners were released. In war effort, women were drafted into factories and took on jobs done by men(bus drivers and post men). Radical social change of 1st world war helped lessen opposition of women voting. 1918,women over the age of thirty also could
vote.
Interesting Random Fact: In 1910, Emmeline led a march of more than three hundred women. This resulted in aggressive police response. She was imprisoned and went on a hunger strike. This led to her being force fed by an officer. She was force fed by means of having a tube shoved down her throat or in her nose all the way down to her stomach so she could get the nutrients she needed to survive in prison.
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“I thought I had been a suffragist before I become a poor Law Guardian but now I began to think about the vote in women’s hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity”- Emmeline Pankhurst
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We are here not because of law -breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law- makers”.-Emmeline Pankhurst
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“You have to make more noise than anybody else,you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else,you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, infact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not show you under, if you are really going to get your reform realized”.-Emmeline Pankhurst
Family Background/Early Life: “Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it.They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs”. This bold statement was said by Emmeline Pankhurst, feminist leader and warrior for women’s rights. Emmeline Goulden was born in Manchester, England in July 1858. She was the eldest of eleven children and was born into a family with tradition of radical politics. Her father’s name was Robert Goulden. He was a cashier and calico printer. Emmeline’s mother was Sophia Goulden.Both parents were abolitionists and they both supported female suffrage. When Emmeline …show more content…
was fourteen, her mother took her to her first women’s suffrage meeting. In 1879, she married Richard Pankhurst. Richard was a lawyer and he too supported the women’s suffrage movement. He authored the Married Woman’s Property Act of 1870 and 1882. This allowed women to keep earning or property acquired before and after marriage. He died unexpectedly in 1898. Richard’s death left Emmeline alone to take care of their five children including Christabel and Sylvia.
Career Overview:
Pankhurst briefly joined the Fabian society.Then she joined the Independent Labor Party.She held local offices as poor law guardian, as a school board member also paid registrar for births and deaths.In all positions, she observed interior positions of woman,legal and social oppression by men.
In 1906 Pankhurst directed the Women’s Social and Political Union(WSPU) activities from London.She campaigned against the Liberal Government Party’s candidates at elections.Pankhurst made three tours of the United States to lecture on woman suffrage.She visited United States of America, Canada, and Russia. She was chosen conservative candidate in 1926 for a London constituency,but health failed before election. In 1926 she joined conservative party with surprised many. She led a protest of three hundred women in 1910 to meet Prime minister Asquith who refused audience- female marchers treated brutally by police- incident called Black Friday. In 1908 she was arrested for trying to enter parliament to deliver a protest resolution to Prime …show more content…
Minister.
Significant Contribution: 1889 Emmeline founded Women’s Franchise League fought to allow married women to vote in local elections.
October 1903 she helped found the more militant Women’s Social and Political Union(WSPU). WSPU members were the 1st to be named “suffragettes”. Emmeline led WSPU-a passionate group of women who were willing to take arastic action (tied to railings,smashing windows). Pankhurst defended their militant tactics. The members were often arrested. In 1913 Christabel (daughter) took leadership of WPSU and tactics become increasingly militant. At the war’s outbreak in 1914,Pankhurst supported war efforts with her campaigning tactics. She announced a temporary truce in women’s suffrage campaign. The Government and suffragettes were at a truce and political prisoners were released. In war effort, women were drafted into factories and took on jobs done by men(bus drivers and post men). Radical social change of 1st world war helped lessen opposition of women voting. 1918,women over the age of thirty also could
vote.
Interesting Random Fact: In 1910, Emmeline led a march of more than three hundred women. This resulted in aggressive police response. She was imprisoned and went on a hunger strike. This led to her being force fed by an officer. She was force fed by means of having a tube shoved down her throat or in her nose all the way down to her stomach so she could get the nutrients she needed to survive in prison.
Quote:1
“I thought I had been a suffragist before I become a poor Law Guardian but now I began to think about the vote in women’s hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity”- Emmeline Pankhurst
Quote:3
We are here not because of law -breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law- makers”.-Emmeline Pankhurst
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“You have to make more noise than anybody else,you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else,you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, infact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not show you under, if you are really going to get your reform realized”.-Emmeline Pankhurst