Pankhurst began to read books when she was very young – according to one source, at the age of three.

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.

She was appalled by the conditions she witnessed first-hand in the Manchester workhouse: Pankhurst immediately began to change these conditions, and established herself as a successful voice of reform on the Board of Guardians.

During the struggle at Boggart Hole Clough, Richard Pankhurst began to experience severe stomach pains.

The individual identities of the Pankhurst children began to emerge around the time of their father's death.

Still living in his parent's home, he began dressing in unconventional and flamboyant garb, and became popular with other students at the college, with a particularly strong friendship developing between Spare and Sylvia Pankhurst, a prominent Suffragette and leftist campaigner.

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.

Christabel Pankhurst immediately began an impromptu meeting outside, and when the police moved them on, contrived to be arrested and brought to court.

Pankhurst reorganised her group of supporters around Workers Dreadnaught, and began criticising the admittance of trade unions to the Red International of Labour Unions, and warning that they felt the Bolsheviks were beginning to " slip to the right ".

The mainstream Marxist critique of such a position began with Lenin ’ s Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder, which attacked those ( such as Pannekoek or Sylvia Pankhurst ) in the nascent Communist International who refused to work with parliamentary or reformist socialists.

Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch, daughter of US suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, became friends with Pankhurst through their work in the Women's Franchise League.

In 1906 Sylvia Pankhurst started to work full-time with the Women's Social and Political Union ( WSPU ) with her sister and her mother.

* Three pamphlets detailing the work of Sylvia Pankhurst as an anti-Bolshevik Communist Anti-Parliamentarism and Communism in Britain, 1917-1921 by R. F. Jones, Anti-Parliamentary Communism: The Movement for Workers Councils in Britain, Class War on the Home Front

Notable past-presidents include Dr. Eamonn Quigley, the first Irish man to serve as president, and Dr. Christina Surawicz, the first woman president ( the " Sylvia Pankhurst " of gastroenterology and recurrent C. diff ) whose pioneering work for women in the field paved the way for Dr. Amy Foxx-Orenstein's presidency.

The IWW continued illegally operating with the aim of freeing its class war prisoners and briefly fused with two other radical tendencies – from the old Socialist parties and Trades Halls – to form a larval communist party at the suggestion of the militant revolutionist and Council Communist Adela Pankhurst.

Pankhurst was so fond of Noémie and the school that after graduating she returned with her sister Mary as a parlour boarder.

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.

" Thus a servant was hired to help with the children as Pankhurst involved herself with the Women's Suffrage Society.

Overwhelmed with grief, Pankhurst commissioned two portraits of the dead boy but was unable to look at them and hid them in a bedroom cupboard.

Pankhurst aligned herself with the " new rules " group, which became known as the Parliament Street Society ( PSS ).

One of her first activities with the ILP found Pankhurst distributing food to poor men and women through the Committee for the Relief of the Unemployed.

Recognising that his loud anger was hurting his chances of persuading those aligned with Pankhurst, he kept a note nearby during meetings: " Keep your temper!

After helping her husband with another unsuccessful parliamentary campaign, Pankhurst faced legal troubles in 1896 when she and two men violated a court order against ILP meetings at Boggart Hole Clough.

" Leaving Christabel with Noémie, Pankhurst returned immediately to England.

The loss of her husband left Pankhurst with new responsibilities and a significant amount of debt.

She also played the role of Guinevere in the film Camelot with Richard Harris and Franco Nero, and briefly as Sylvia Pankhurst in Oh!

Pankhurst would not be satisfied with anything but action on the question of women's enfranchisement, with " deeds, not words " the organisation's motto.

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.

Here, they became neighbours to Spare's old friend Sylvia Pankhurst, with Spare also befriending several local Jews, reading works of Jewish literature such as the Zohar and The Song of Solomon in order to impress them.

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.

Suffragist Lydia Becker was an early political influence on Pankhurst and may have been enamoured of Richard Pankhurst.

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.

Workers ' Dreadnought was a newspaper published by variously-named political parties led by Sylvia Pankhurst.

* Sylvia Pankhurst: Everything is Possible-A documentary that chronicles the life and political campaigns of Sylvia Pankhurst and includes an exclusive interview with her son Richard Pankhurst and his wife Rita.

Important British political figures include ; Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the suffragettes which helped win women the right to vote, William Wilberforce, leading abolitionist, Robert Peel, founded the Conservative party and is also credited with the creation of the modern police force.

The Workers ' Socialist Federation was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom, led by Sylvia Pankhurst.

The album includes a song about Emily Pankhurst (" Emily "), a leader in the British woman's suffrage movement, but otherwise, the band's earlier political lyrics have been replaced by personal reflection, such as on the band's past (" 1985 ") and former member Richey Edwards (" Cardiff Afterlife ").

Adela Constantia Mary Pankhurst Walsh ( 1885 – 1961 ) was a British-Australian suffragette, political organizer, and co-founder of both the Communist Party of Australia and the Australia First Movement.

Prominent former residents include the musician Charles Hallé, the artists Ford Madox Brown and Elias Bancroft, the famous suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst and the Pankhurst family, the physicist Sir Arthur Schuster, the architect Edward Salomons, the political activist Richard Cobden, the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell and the woman of letters Marie Nordlinger ( 1876-1961 ).

Eventually arson became a common tactic among WSPU members, and more moderate organisations spoke out against the Pankhurst family.