Emmeline Pankhurst remains one of the most pivotal women in history. For others, such words might be an overstatement, but for Emmeline Pankhurst, they are simply the truth. She came of age at a time when women had no voice in the affairs of their own country, and she made it her life's work to change that. What began as grassroots activism quickly turned into nothing short of a crusade that would reshape British society and inspire women across the world.
Yet Emmeline Pankhurst would pay a steep personal price for it. She was beaten by police, imprisoned repeatedly, and even force-fed by her jailers when she went on hunger strike rather than submit to a system that refused to recognise her as a full citizen. She buried a husband, two sons, and a sister along the way, but through all of it, she never wavered.
This book chronicles her struggle for equality as well as her personal life. This is the life, this is the legend, of Emmeline Pankhurst in full.
