Joanna M Williams - Emmeline's Loving Comrade, Richard Marsden Pankhurst: The Man Who Inspired the Suffragette Leader...with TRE's Selina Mackenzie
Richard Marsden Pankhurst is an obscure figure, forgotten by history because he has been overshadowed by his dazzling wife, Emmeline, the great leader of the Suffragettes. Yet their partnership as campaigners was a critical element in her development and success. Her reaction to his death in 1898 led to her decision five years later to convene the Women's Social and Political Union, popularly known as the Suffragettes.
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