Arrested twelve times in the space of one year due to the passage of the "Cat and Mouse Act," this figure's My Own Story documents how each release was celebrated with a procession on a flower-decked wagon.
Arrested twelve times in the space of one year due to the passage of the "Cat and Mouse Act," this figure's My Own Story documents how each release was celebrated with a procession on a flower-decked wagon. Late in life, she joined the Conservative Party and ran for office. But she is better known for the organization she founded with the motto "Deeds not Words." That group, the Women's Social and Political Union, strove to undermine Liberal legislative control by interrupting Cabinet meetings. Often working alongside her equally radical daughters Christabel and Sylvia, FTP, identify this woman whose death in 1928 coincided with her ultimate goal: the passage of universal suffrage in Britain.
Arrested twelve times in the space of one year due to the passage of the "Cat and Mouse Act," this figure's My Own Story documents how each release was celebrated with a procession on a flower-decked wagon.
Emmeline {Pankhurst}