Emmeline Pankhurst ( born Emmeline Goulden ) ( 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928 ) was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement which helped women win the right to vote.

Born Emmeline Goulden and raised in Moss Side, Manchester, England by politically active parents, Pankhurst was introduced at the age of 8 to the women's suffrage movement.

Feigning sleep one evening as her father came into her bedroom, Emmeline Goulden heard him pause and say to himself: " What a pity she wasn't born a lad.

In the autumn of 1878, at the age of 20, Emmeline Goulden met and began a courtship with Richard Pankhurst, a barrister who had advocated women's suffrage – and other causes, including freedom of speech and education reform – for years.

Emmeline Goulden agreed, and they were wed in Eccles on 18 December 1879.

During the 1880s, living at the Goulden cottage with her parents in Seedley, Emmeline Pankhurst tended to her husband and children, but still devoted time to political activities.

He married Emmeline Goulden, better known as Emmeline Pankhurst, who was some 22 years younger than he was, in 1879.

" In " Smith and Jones ", Martha Jones asked if the Doctor also had a " Laser Spanner ", to which he replied that he had, until it was stolen by Emmeline Pankhurst.

* In " Smith and Jones ", the Doctor claims to have once owned a " laser spanner " until it was stolen by Emmeline Pankhurst, described by the Doctor as a " cheeky woman ".

Despite her avid consumption of books, however, Emmeline was not given the educational advantages enjoyed by her brothers.

The Women's Social and Political Union founded by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903 was a militant movement.

One major division, especially in Britain, was between suffragists, who sought to create change constitutionally, and suffragettes, led by iconic English political activist Emmeline Pankhurst, who in 1903 formed the more militant Women's Social and Political Union.

In a January 2010 BBC documentary, Mother Was A Blackshirt, James Maw reported on how in 1914 Norah Elam was placed in a Holloway prison cell with Emmeline Pankhurst for her involvement with the Suffragette movement, yet in 1940 she returned to the same prison with Diana Mosley, but this time for her involvement with the fascist movement.

Annie Kenney, born in nearby Springhead, and who worked in Oldham's cotton mills, was a notable member of the Suffragette movement credited with sparking off suffragette militancy when she heckled Winston Churchill, and later ( with Emmeline Pankhurst ) the first Suffragist to be imprisoned.

Emmeline Pankhurst's husband, Richard Pankhurst, was a supporter of the women's suffrage movement, and had been the author of the Married Women's Property Acts of 1870 and 1882.

Magee Senior, disregarding family wealth, chose to become an Episcopal priest and was sent as a missionary to China and there met his wife, Faith Emmeline Backhouse.

Sylvia Pankhurst was born in Manchester, a daughter of Dr. Richard Pankhurst and Emmeline Pankhurst, members of the Independent Labour Party and ( especially Emmeline ) much concerned with women's rights.

His mother was Louisa Emmeline Grossmith née Weedon ( d. 1882 ).

His mother was Louisa Emmeline Grossmith née Weedon ( d. 1882 ).

While living in Australia, Preston was discovered at 16 by a fashion photographer who helped her get work in commercials and other small parts, and organised Preston's first film audition in 1980 for the role of Emmeline in The Blue Lagoon ( 1980 ), which she lost to the younger Brooke Shields.

Christabel Pankhurst was the daughter of the lawyer Dr. Richard Pankhurst and women's suffrage movement leader Emmeline Pankhurst and sister to Sylvia Pankhurst and Adela Pankhurst.

Emmeline Pankhurst began to take more militant action for the women's suffrage cause after her daughter's arrest and was herself imprisoned on many occasions for her principles.

David Lloyd George, whom Pankhurst had regarded as the most bitter and dangerous enemy of women, was now the one politician in whom she and Emmeline Pankhurst placed confidence.

* Jean ( Emmeline ) Hanson, ( 1919 – 1973 ), Professor of Biology at the University of London, born in Newhall.

The couple's daughter, Emmeline, named after the suffragette, Emmeline Pankhurst, was born in October 2005.

Pratt was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, the fourth child and second son of Helaman Pratt and Emmeline Victoria Billingsley Pratt.

Marsh was born in Stoke Newington, London, the daughter of Emmeline Susannah Nightingale Poppy ( née Bexley ), a bar employee and dresser for the theatre, and Henry Charles John Marsh, an outdoor maintenance man and printer's assistant.

Adela was born on 19 June 1885 in Manchester, England, into a politicized family: her father, Richard Pankhurst was a socialist and candidate for Parliament, and her mother Emmeline Pankhurst and sisters Sylvia and Christabel were leaders of the British suffragette movement.

Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby ( 9 October 1267 – shortly before 25 March 1314 ) was born at North Molton, Devonshire, the only son of Roger La Zouche and his wife, Ela Longespee, daughter of Stephen Longespee and Emmeline de Ridelsford.

Moody was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1882, the son of pharmacist Charles Ernest Moody and his wife Christina Emmeline Ellis.

Emmeline suggested to Richard that they avoid the legal formalities of marriage by entering into a free union ; he objected on the grounds that she would be excluded from political life as an unmarried woman.

He sexually exploits Cassy, who despises him, and later sets his designs on Emmeline.

Among sites that claim a relation to these pseudohistorical figures are a house north of Lafayette, Louisiana, which supposedly belonged to Gabriel, and the grave of Emmeline in the Perpetual Adoration Garden & Historic Cemetery in St. Martin de Tours Church Square, on Main Street, St. Martinville ( the site having been determined for its convenience by local boosters about the turn of the 20th century ).

Richard and Emmeline ( now portrayed by Christopher Atkins and Brooke Shields ) begin to fall in love, although this is emotionally stressful for them because of their lack of education on human sexuality, and are unable to express their physical attraction for one another.

They make up for this fight after Emmeline is nearly killed upon stepping on a stonefish and Richard admits to his fear of losing her.

Later on, frustrated at not knowing how to feed the baby, Emmeline holds him on her arms to appease his crying, and learns how to feed him as the baby instinctively starts sucking on her breast.

His involvement in the Women's Social and Political Union ( WSPU ), on behalf of women's rights, led to him serving a nine-month prison sentence in 1912, following Christabel Pankhurst's window-smashing campaign, even though he had disagreed with that form of action ; because of his disagreement, indeed, he was expelled from the WSPU by Emmeline Pankhurst and Christabel.

Her action was ostensibly provoked by the arrest of fellow suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst the previous day, although there had been earlier warnings of a planned suffragette attack on the collection.

Together, cousins Richard and Emmeline Lestrange have to survive solely on their resourcefulness, and the bounty of their remote paradise.

From then on, Richard is very attentive to Emmeline, listening to her stories and bringing her gifts.

Inexplicably, even to herself, Emmeline has broken off a branch of the deadly " never-wake-up " berries that Paddy warned her about on their first day.

The tale centres on Arthur's endeavours to recover his fiancée, the blind Cornish Princess Emmeline, who has been abducted by his arch-enemy, the Saxon King Oswald of Kent.