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Emmeline Pankhurst
Early Life
Emmeline Goulden was born in Manchester in July, Her parents were Sophia Jane Craine and Robert Goulden.
Both were active campaigners against slavery (abolitionists) and helped to raise money for the newly freed slaves in the United States of America.
At the age of 14 Emmeline went with her mother to a suffrage meeting.
Emmeline Goulden was born on July 14,.
There she heard Lydia Becker speak about the women’s suffrage movement. Lydia Becker was Secretary of the Manchester National Society for Women’s Suffrage. Lydia was also the editor of the Womens Suffrage Journal, of which Emmeline’s mother was a regular reader.
At age 15 Emmeline was sent to school in Paris where she made friends with Noemie Rochefort, daughter of the Republican journalist Henri Rochefort.
In Emmeline married the 45 year old barrister Dr Richard Pankhurst.
Richard had long been a supporter of women’s suffrage and worked with Lydia Becker and the Manchester National Society for Women’s S