Suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst - Militant Suffragist: Emmeline Pankhurst led Britain in the suffragist movement from 1902 to 1914. The primary source text in this comparison is a manifesto of Emmeline Pankhurst's reprinted in the Modern History Sourcebook. In the manifesto, Pankhurst describes herself as a "soldier who has temporarily left the battle in order to explain." Throughout the short manifesto, Pankhurst describes the ongoing struggle for women's rights, specifically the right to vote. Predictably, Pankhurst uses a war imagery to describe the need for women's rights. However, given the radical spee

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