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Mrs Pankhurst
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(Emmeline Goulden, 1858–1928, m. Richard Pankhurst 1879) Leading *suffragette and founder in 1903 of the WSPU (Women's Social and Political Union). She was responsible for an increasing militancy in the women's campaign, prompted by an occasion in 1905 when her daughter Christabel (1880–1958) was thrown out of a Liberal meeting in Manchester for asking a question about votes for women, and was then arrested and imprisoned for assaulting the police. Both mother and daughter were frequently in prison in subsequent years (Mrs Pankhurst on twelve separate occasions within a single year, 1912).
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