Emmeline Pankhurst

1858–1928 · British suffragette leader · founder of the Women's Social and Political Union

Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928) was the leading figure of the militant British women’s suffrage movement. In 1903 she founded the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), whose members — the “suffragettes” — turned from petitions to direct action: marches, window‑breaking, hunger strikes and imprisonment. She adopted the terse slogan “Deeds, not words” to mark that deliberate break with decades of peaceful campaigning.

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