Labels:text | human face | person | clothing | letter OCR: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Pankhurst, Emmeline Emmeline Pankhurst "I am probably going to my death," asserted Emmeline Pankhurst when in 1913 she was arrested for inciting the destruction of the home of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Under the "Cat and Mouse Act" - a brutal policy adopted by the British government to beat the suffragettes - she was imprisoned, went on hunger strike, was released, then rearrested 12 times. Until the 1880s, married women in Britain were not allowed to own property, let alone vote, and Pankhurst first became interested in voting rights for women when her mother took her to a suffrage meeting at age 14. After the death of her husband, a liberal campaigner, she formed the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), together with her daughters Christabel and Sylvia, in 1903. Emmeline Pankhurst, An inspirational orator, Pankhurst drew British social reformer and thousands of women into the movement, suffragette, 1857-1928 which grew increasingly militant until World War I. In 1918 suffrage for women over age 30 was introduced; and in 1928, before her death, Emmeline was able to celebrate full women's suffrage in Britain. CHRONOLOGY
