Inspiration for the major motion picture Suffragette
The great leader of the women’s suffrage movement tells the story of her fight for equality
Don't miss Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst in the major motion picture Suffragette.
Emmeline Pankhurst was raised in a world that valued men over women. At fourteen she attended her first suffrage meeting and returned home a confirmed suffragist. Throughout her career she endured humiliation, prison, hunger strikes and the repeated frustration of her aims by men in power but she rose to become the guiding light of the Suffragette movement. This is Pankhurst’s story, in her own words, of her struggle for equality.
“She shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back”
Time
“She shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back”
Time
“She put body and soul at the service of liberty, equality and fraternity and secured a triumph for them”
Rebecca West
“Emmeline Pankhurst fought for women's suffrage with indomitable courage”
Guardian
“She shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back”
Time
“The finished product rests somewhere between a gripping novel and a painstaking historical record. No view of the suffragette story is complete without this comprehensive puzzle piece.”
Jacqui Agate, The Independent
“She put body and soul at the service of liberty, equality and fraternity and secured a triumph for them”
Rebecca West
“Emmeline Pankhurst fought for women's suffrage with indomitable courage”
Guardian