Founder of the Women's Social and Political Union 1903, she launched the militant suffragette campaign 1905. In 1926 she joined the Conservative Party and was a prospective Parliamentary candidate. She was supported by her daughters Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958), political leader of the movement, and Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960). The latter was imprisoned nine times under the "Cat and Mouse Act", and was a pacifist in World War I.
