I believe that the most significant person in the history of women is Emmeline Pankhurst.

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I believe that the most significant person in history of women is Emmeline Pankhurst. Historians disagree about the effect of her activity on public support for the cause of women's votes. However she was widely, criticised for her militant tactics,her work is recognised as a crucial element in achieving women suffrage in Britain. I am going to explain what it means to be significant, a biography of Emmeline Pankhurst, her actions, the long term and short term impacts of her actions, more importantly I am going to conclude the significance of Emmeline Pankhurst in relation to other women.

There are many factors to being significant in history. The meaning of significant is important in some way. To be significant I believe you have to be someone, who creates a great change, with a very big impact, that affects a large number of people, or someone who creates a change on government legislations. Someone that can make changes that can change so much more with just one goal.

Emmeline Pankhurst born 15th July 1858 was a leading women's rights activist, who led the movement to win the right for women to vote. Born as Emmeline Goulden, raised in Manchester into a family with a tradition of radical politics. Emmeline Pankhurst's father was a successful businessman, while her mother Sophia Crane was a passionate feminist.

It was Emmeline's mother first, who introduced her into the families world of radical political beliefs. It was Sophia who took her daughter Emmeline to her first ever women's suffrage meetings in the early 1870's, when she was only 8 years old! Although her parents encouraged her to prepare herself for a life  as a wife and a mother, her parents sent her to a girls school in Paris at the age of fifteen, to finish off the rest of her education. The school was called Ecole Normale De Neuilly, soon after when she returned back to Manchester in 1878, she married Richard Pankhurst.

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Richard Pankhurst, a committed socialist, lawyer, barrister and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. Richard and Emmeline were two perfect matches, though there was a significant age gap, he was forty four, while she was only twenty. However Richard Goulden gave permission for the marriage to take place. Emmeline had four children in the first six years of her marriage; Christabel (1880),Sylvia (1882), Frank (1884), and Adela (1885).

Richard Pankhurst supported Emmeline with activities she did outside the home, furthermore she quickly became involved with the woman's Franchise League in 1889, which advocated suffrage for women. However ...

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