Pankhursts - Emmeline, Christabel, Sylvia - Suffrage Activists
This family of English suffrage activists changed the course of women's history with their radical agitation. Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia founded the Women's Party and influenced Alice Paul and other Americans.
Quotes by Christabel Pankhurst - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.
On this site, a biography of Emmeline Pankhurst, British suffrage leader.
From your About Guide to Women's History, a few quotations from Emmeline Pankhurst.
Entries on the Pankhursts demonstrate a bit of the attitude some had towards the suffragettes.
Spartacus Educational site profile of Christabel Pankhurst, well hyper-linked to show her family and organizational connections. In addition to her well-known career as a racial women's rights activist, it also notes her later involvement in America's Second Adventist religious movement.
"Time 100" profile of this English suffrage activist includes 3-page biography, timeline and portrait.
Spartacus Educational site with a well hyper-linked article on England's radical suffragette.
Pankhurst speaks to American men and women about her experience in England struggling for women's vote.
Pankhurst, a key English leader of the Woman Suffrage movement, with a personal view of the history of that movement.
A reprint of the New York Times article, January 12, 1915, detailing the loss of the suffrage amendment in the United States Congress. The article includes statements from those who opposed the suffrage amendment and extended comments by Christabel Pankhurst.
More radical of the British suffrage organizations, WSPU was founded in 1903 by the Pankhursts.
