The Pankhursts: David Mitchell

Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, with her daughters Christabel, Sylvia and Adela were the central figures of the Suffragette movement who fought for votes for women in the early years of the 20th century. Civil disobedience, direct action, mass meetings, hunger strikes and vandalism were all employed to shout the message of equality. A possible apocryphal story is that of a young suffragette who was distressed by the growing violence on behalf of the Cause, and who came to Mrs. Pankhurst crying, "What shall we do? What shall we do?" The reply? "Put your faith in God, my dear. She will help us."