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[SUFFRAGETTE]. PANKHURST, EMMELINE (1858-1928). Photograph signed ("E. Pankhurst"), n.p., n.d. [circa 1910]. 165 x 218 mm. (6½ x 8 5/8 in.) including mount, mounted on heavy boards. A half-length portrait of Pankhurst, seated at her desk, signed on the lower-right corner.
"An indefatigable fighter for women's suffrage, she and her supporters employed unusually militant means to bring the vote to English women, using both nonviolent (hunger strikes) and violent (window smashing, arson) means to call attention to the cause"--W.M.
"An indefatigable fighter for women's suffrage, she and her supporters employed unusually militant means to bring the vote to English women, using both nonviolent (hunger strikes) and violent (window smashing, arson) means to call attention to the cause"--W.M.