Probably the Suffragette movement would P not have attained its present prominence had it not been for the guiding influence of Mrs. Pankhurst, who founded the union, and is its commander-in-chief. For more than thirty years Mrs. Pankhurst has been striving for votes for women. Her husband, the late Dr. Pankhurst, a Manchester barrister, was a member of the first Woman's Suffrage Society, and now his widow and two daughters - Miss Christabel and Miss Sylvia Pankhurst - are carrying on the work he attempted. Mrs. Pankhurst hay suffered largely in the cause which she has championed so long and so ardently. She has been thrown in the mud, kicked, stunned by a gang of political hooligans, and served two sentences in Holloway. She it was who planned and directed the great Suffragette raid on the House of Commons, for which fifty women were sent to gaol.

Mrs. Pankhurst J. Purdy