Emmeline Pankhurst Sculpture

Emmeline Pankhurst was the leader of the British Suffragette movement, who was also a British political activist.She helped women to win the right to vote.In 1903, she founded the Women's Social and Political Union, which used militant tactics to agitate for Women's Suffrage. Pankhurst was imprisoned on many occasions, but supported the war effort after World War I broke out. Parliament granted British women limited suffrage in 1918

A fitting tribute to an important person in British life.The statue is located in Victoria Tower Gardens South which also contains other statues and memorials.The Gardens also have plenty of seating and offer a different view of the Houses of Parliament etc.

This statue is a memorial to Emmeline Pankhurst, the suffragette and women's rights political leader. The bronze relief sculpture were later additions in memory for her daughter Christabel Pankhurst, herself a suffragette. The statue shows Pankhurst in middle age, but standing tall and proud with a kindly motherly look on face as she stretches out her right hand as if addressing an audience. We as the audience should listen and heed her words for equality.

Women's rights activist with monument right next to House of Lord's. Great line from Mary Poppins musical about Mrs Pankhurst!

Palace of Westminster is a nice backdrop...

Amazing and very close to Victoria Tower Gardens

Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote. In 1999 Time named Pankhurst as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, stating she shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back"."

A great statue to remember Emmeline Pankhurst who fought hard for women to be able to vote in the suffragette movement.

Historical interest, but most contemporary supporters of women’s rights did not support her. Here is one of them:In the years immediately preceding the first great war, the period of militant suffragist disturbance was gradually displaced by a period of militant suffragist outrage. All over the country, attempts, frequently wholly successful, were made to destroy by fire buildings of note. Several lovely old churches were burned to the ground. But churches were easy money, for the house of God cares for itself by night. A bomb was placed and exploded in Westminster Abbey, damaging the Coronation Chair. The greens of well-known golf-courses were ravaged beyond repair. One summer evening half the windows of Old Bond Street were smashed to smithereens, to the great provocation of their owners and of all who passed that way. His Majesty’s mails were burned, to the loss and inconvenience of His subjects, high and low. The running of The Derby was interfered with and at Tattenham Corner the King’s horse was brought down. As a result of this vulgar and intolerable behaviour, the tide of the public temper was running high, and, had a plebiscite been taken in 1913, there can be no shadow of doubt that the voting against Women’s Suffrage would have been at least fifty to one.Then, in the twinkling of an eye, came the first great war. And throughout that war the women of England pulled far more than their weight. With the result that, when the war was over and the electors were asked whether women should have the vote, most people felt they deserved it – and said as much. But the British memory is notoriously short. And so, in the fullness of time, it came about that the women who inspired and directed conduct so monstrous as to kill their cause, are now most honourably mentioned as creditors to whom all women owe their right to vote. -DY

Statue of Emmeline Pankhurst located just within the entrance to Victoria Tower gardens. Striking statue with the backdrop of the Houses of Parliament.