Emmeline Pankhurst, 1858–1928 KU Burdett-Coutts instead devoted her time

Burdett-Coutts instead devoted her time – working with a Coutts client Charles Dickens – to philanthropy

daughter Nellie Colman Bigsby praised her reformist spirit

A professor of mathematics at Northwestern University

Although discouraged to work together

Emmeline Pankhurst, 1858–1928 KU Burdett-Coutts instead devoted her timeIn 1903, the social reformer Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Womens Social and Political Union to campaign for the parliamentary vote for women in Edwardian Britain, Deeds, not words being its motto. A charismatic leader and powerful orator, Pankhurst roused thousands of women to demand, rather than ask politely, for their democratic right in a mass movement that has been unparalleled in British history. Always in the thick of the struggle, she endured