Within a politically active family, Emmeline Gould came into contact with the women's movement at the age of just 14, in 1872.
In 1999 Time magazine ranked her among the 100 most important people of the 20th century.
On December 18, 1879, she married Richard Pankhurst, a lawyer 20 years her senior who was known for his support of women's rights. He had five children with her in ten years.
In her later years, fearing the Bolsheviks and the threat she felt they posed, she joined the Conservative Party.
In 1918, the Representation of the People Act gave voting rights to women over 30. Ten years later, in 1928, women were granted equal voting rights with men(at 21).
Emmeline Pankhurst died shortly after on 14 June 1928 in Hampstead.
