About the Author

Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement. In 1903, she founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). She died on 14 June1928, only weeks before the Conservative government extended the vote to all women over twenty-one years of age.

Reviews

'She shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back' Time 'Our film is inspired by the true stories of the foot soldiers of the Suffragette movement, women who were willing to sacrifice everything in their fight ' Sarah Gavron, Film Director