Emmeline Pankhurst Timeline

Manchester was the center of the women's emancipation movement in 1866

She went to a school in France called Ecole Normale when she was 14

Emmeline Goulden met Dr. Richard Pankhurst who was a lawyer, he also supported radical causes such as women's suffrage.

Emmeline and Richard Pankhurst along with fellow activists formed the women's franchise league to gain the vote for women, but Richard tried to make I too man things so the league disbanded the same year it was made.

The worked with the party to help feed multitudes of poor and unemployed people in Manchester. During this time she was also elected a poor law guardian and sent time visiting workhouses in Manchester becoming aware of the shocking levels of poverty. They fed 2,000 unemployed people per day

After her husband's death she threw herself into the Women's Suffrage Movement forming the new Women's Franchise League.

Emmeline and nine other women were arrested for attempting to make a speech in support of a women's right to vote.

The WSPU broke the windows of government buildings and began to throw small stones threw the prime minister's own house.