English Suffragists - Emmeline Pankhurst, Anna Leonowens, Millicent Fawcett, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Constance Lytton, Harriet Martineau (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 68. Chapters: Emmeline Pankhurst, Anna Leonowens, Millicent Fawcett, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Constance Lytton, Harriet Martineau, Nesta Helen Webster, Nina Boyle, Elizabeth Fry, Josephine Butler, Mary Kingsley, Beatrice Webb, Edith Craig, Violet Tillard, Vera Brittain, Hannah Mitchell, Sophia Jex-Blake, Lilian Lenton, Christabel Pankhurst, Olive Wharry, Laurence Housman, Annie Horniman, Louisa Martindale, Alice Meynell, Louisa Garrett Anderson, Selina Martin, Catherine Booth, Christabel Marshall, Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, Elizabeth Cadbury, Frances Buss, Emily Davies, Sybil Morrison, Susan Dacre, Mary Gawthorpe, Maude Royden, Nellie Hall, Minnie Lansbury, Elizabeth Eiloart, Clemence Housman, Rosa May Billinghurst, Rona Robinson, Annie Swynnerton, Margaret Ashton, Selina Cooper, Alison Roberta Noble Neilans, Florence Reeves, Laura McLaren, Baroness Aberconway, Louise Samuel, Helen Taylor, Ellen Isabel Jones. Excerpt: Emmeline Pankhurst (nee Goulden; 15 July 1858 - 14 June 1928) was an English political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement which helped women win the right to vote. In 1999 Time named Pankhurst as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, stating: "she shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back." She was widely criticized for her militant tactics, and historians disagree about their effectiveness, but her work is recognized as a crucial element in achieving women's suffrage in Britain. Born Emmeline Goulden and raised in Manchester, England by politically active parents, Pankhurst was introduced at the age of 8 to the women's suffrage movement. Although her parents encouraged her to prepare herself for life as a wife and mother, she attended the Ecole Normale de Neuilly in Paris. In 1878 she married Richa...