ABSTRACT
Emmeline Pankhurst led the suffrage movement in Great Britain, inspiring other women's rights movements in Europe and the United States. Emmeline Pankhurst was born on July 14, 1858, in Manchester, England, the daughter of anti-slavery and reform-minded parents. While attending boarding school in Manchester, she began to take part in the movement for women's suffrage. In 1879 Goulden married Richard Marsden Pankhurst, an attorney who supported women's rights. While starting a family and struggling to support it, Richard Pankhurst remained active in the movement, promoting the Married Women's Property Bill of 1882 giving wives the right to control their own income. In 1889 the Pankhursts formed the Women's Franchise League to demand the right of women to vote in local elections.
