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Emmeline Pankhurst

Played by Dame Harriet Walter

Fact title Fact data
Date of birth
15 July 1858
Place of birth
Manchester
Age at outbreak of WW1
56
Occupation
Suffragette

World-famous suffragette leader and scourge of the establishment, Mrs Pankhurst sets Folkestone talking when she arrives to give a speech. Despite her history of challenging the government, she has weighed in behind the war effort, suspending all militant suffragette activity.

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