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Davison's death marked a culmination and a turning point of the militant suffragette campaign. The First World War broke out the following year and, on 10 August 1914, the government released all women hunger strikers and declared an amnesty. Emmeline Pankhurst suspended WSPU operations on 13 August.
Emmeline Pankhurst (/ ˈ p æ ŋ k h ɜːr s t /; [1] née Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist [2] who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win in 1918 the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland.
"The 1913 Death of Emily Wilding Davison was a Key Moment in the Ongoing Struggle for Gender Equality in the UK". Democratic Audit; Tanner, Michael (2013). The Suffragette Derby. London: The Robson Press. ISBN 978-1-8495-4518-1. Thorpe, Vanessa (26 May 2013). "Truth Behind the Death of Suffragette Emily Davison is Finally Revealed".
Who was Emmeline Pankhurst and what did she help achieve for women?
The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was founded as an independent women's movement on 10 October 1903 at 62 Nelson Street, Manchester, home of the Pankhurst family. [4] Emmeline Pankhurst, along with two of her daughters, Christabel and Sylvia, and her husband, Richard, before his death in 1898, had been active in the Independent ...
The replacement WSPU newspaper, The Suffragette cost 1d, [7] and was initially edited by Christabel Pankhurst, daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst. [8] The first issue was published on 17 October 1912, [ 8 ] and The Suffragette ' s business manager Agnes Lake often liaised with Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst about improving the publications ...
He made himself available as legal adviser to WSPU prisoners, and, in June 1913, he represented the Davison family at the inquest into Emily Davison's death after throwing herself under the king's horse at the Derby. [9] Together with Mary Leigh, Rose was at the dying Davison's bedside, and headed a guard of honour for the funeral procession. [10]
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