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Emmeline Pankhurst was probably the most important person of the twentieth-century. Today her name is associated with the 'votes for women' campaign as the most inspirational and courageous suffrage leader in history and she's remembered. In this absorbing account of her life both before and following the campaign for women's suffrage, June Purvis documents her early governmental function, her effective role within the suffrage movements and her role as a wife and mother within her family.This intriguing full length biography of Emmeline Pankhurst, the very first for almost seventy years, brings upon fresh methods to feminist biography to put her within the framework of her family and friends. It's based on an incomparable selection of primary sources, including individual interviews with her remaining family.