Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928), Militant suffragette
Sitter in 10 portraits
Leader of the militant wing of the suffragists' movement for the enfranchisement of women, Emmeline founded the Women's Social and Political Union with her eldest daughter Christabel in 1903. Another daughter, Sylvia, designed the members' card and painted the 'Votes for Women' banners. All of them were imprisoned in Holloway Prison on numerous occasions between 1908 and 1913, and released after hunger strikes. During the war Emmeline and Christabel observed the militants' truce. Partial enfranchisement came in 1918 to men aged twenty-one and women over the age of thirty, after a war that had relied on women to fill the place of men at work. Universal suffrage had to wait another decade.
by Georgina Agnes Brackenbury
oil on canvas, 1927
On display in Room 30 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2360
by Christina Broom
bromide print, circa 1900
NPG x6194
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by Lena Connell (later Beatrice Cundy)
toned bromide postcard print, circa 1907
NPG x136722
Emmeline Pankhurst addressing a crowd in Trafalgar Square
by Unknown photographer, printed by Central Press
vintage press print, 1908
NPG x131784
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson; Emmeline Pankhurst
by Unknown photographer
bromide press print, 18 November 1910
NPG x32106
by Dennis Moss
bromide postcard print, 1911
NPG x46491
by Daily Mirror
bromide press print, 11 October 1913
NPG x32604
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
sepia-toned platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1920s
NPG x4332
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
sepia-toned platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1920s
NPG x6195
by Elliott & Fry, copied by Bassano
half-plate film negative, 9 June 1965
NPG x176282
Pankhurst Centre, Manchester
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