Google's latest doodle celebrates the birthday of Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote.
Born Emmeline Goulden in 1858 into a radical Manchester family, she attended the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and, in 1879, married Richard Pankhurst, a lawyer and supporter of the women's suffrage movement who was also the author of the Married Women's Property Acts of 1870 and 1882.
She founded the Women's Franchise League in 1889 as part of a campaign to allow married women to vote in local elections before going on to establish the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903.
Members of the latter organisation, an all-women suffrage advocacy organisation which was dedicated to "deeds, not words", were the first to be described widely as 'suffragettes'.
As the movement forced itself into the national consciousness through a campaign of protest and direction action, Pankhurst and other WSPU activists –including her daughters – were sentenced to repeated prison sentences, where they staged hunger strikes.
Emmeline and her daughter Christabel, who had taken on the leadership of the WSPU, called a halt to militant suffrage activism with the advent of the First World War and urged women to aid industrial production. The Representation of the People Act, in 1918, granted votes to all men over the age of 21 and women over the age of 30.
In later years, Pankhurst was drawn towards conservative politics and was selected as a Conservative party candidate for Stepney in 1927. Her death in June 1928 came weeks before the Conservative government's Representation of the People Act (1928), which extended the vote to all women over 21 years of age in July 1928.
Meryl Streep is set to star as Pankhurst in a forthcoming film, Suffragette, which stars Carey Mulligan as Maude, a "foot soldier of the early feminist movement". The film, to be directed by Brick Lane's Sarah Gavron from a script by Abi Morgan.
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From the archive: Mrs Pankhurst is arrested once more
