The campaign for women’s right to vote in the United Kingdom was relatively slow. The first debate on women’s suffrage in Parliament was in 1870, but the members of Parliament resisted granting this right for decades. Given the lack of progress, Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women’s Social and Political Union (WPSU) in 1903. Pankhurst’s daughters Christabel, Sylvia, and Adela were all heavily involved as well. Initially, the WSPU’s protests took the form of civil disobedience and other disruptive activities, but later, the group became more violent (or “militant”), which included…
