Emmeline Pankhurst had been involved in the campaign for women's rights ever since she attended her first suffrage meeting, aged fourteen. At twenty, she married Richard Pankhurst, a man at the forefront of the women's suffrage movement. Following Richard's death in 1898, their daughters encouraged her to become increasingly involved in the fight for the vote and in 1903, frustrated by the slowness of it all, they set up the Women's Social and Political Union, from their home in Manchester. Moving to London in 1906, Emmeline became the figurehead of the suffragette movement, constantly initiating direct actions, risking her life and being imprisoned many times. She died in 1928, the year women achieved full equal franchise with men.
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