This figure is the subject of a 2002 biography by Jane Purvis as well as an essay by Rebecca West titled "A Reed of Steel." Her methods were strongly opposed by Millicent Fawcett. This figure founded an organization whose slogan was "Deeds not Words," and cycled in and out of jail due to the "Cat and Mouse Act," as the Temporary Discharge for Ill Health Act was known. Together with Annie Kenney and her daughter Christabel, she founded the (*) WSPU, which adopted militant tactics including arson when the government block
This figure is the subject of a 2002 biography by Jane Purvis as well as an essay by Rebecca West titled "A Reed of Steel." Her methods were strongly opposed by Millicent Fawcett. This figure founded an organization whose slogan was "Deeds not Words," and cycled in and out of jail due to the "Cat and Mouse Act," as the Temporary Discharge for Ill Health Act was known. Together with Annie Kenney and her daughter Christabel, she founded the (*) WSPU, which adopted militant tactics including arson when the government blocked a conciliation bill. The cause agitated for by this figure was finally realized in 1918. Famous for her hunger strikes and for throwing herself in front of horses, for 10 points, identify this activist who agitated for suffrage in England
This figure is the subject of a 2002 biography by Jane Purvis as well as an essay by Rebecca West titled "A Reed of Steel.
Emmeline Pankhurst [or Emmeline Goulden]