Emmeline Pankhurst was a member of the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage. By 1903 Pankhurst had become frustrated at the NUWSS lack of success. With the help of her three daughters, Christabel Pankhurst, Sylvia Pankhurst and Adela Pankhurst, she formed the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). The main objective was to gain, not universal suffrage, the vote for all women and men over a certain age, but votes for women, “on the same basis as men.” This meant winning the vote not for all women but for only the small stratum of women who could meet the property qualification. As one critic pointed out, it was "not votes for women", but “votes for ladies.” As an early member of the WSPU, Dora Montefiore, pointed out: "The work of the Women’s Social and Political Union was begun by Mrs. Pankhurst in Manchester, and by a group of women in London who had revolted against the inertia and conventionalism which seemed to have fastened upon" the NUWSS.
In 1905 members of the WSPU agreed to take actions that would result in them being sent to prison. This includes:
Mary Phillips
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WphillipsM.htm
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wpethick.htm
Mary Richardson
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WrichardsonM.htm
Elizabeth Robins
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wrobins.htm
Grace Roe
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wroe.htm
Evelyn Sharp
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wsharp.htm
Ethel Smyth
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jsmythe.htm
Marion Wallace-Dunlop
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wwallace-Dunlop.htm
Helen Kirkpatrick Watts
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WwattsH.htm
Vera Wentworth
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WwentworthV.htm
Elsie Howey
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whowley.htm
Edith How-Martyn
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wmartyn.htm
Gladice Keevil
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WkeevilG.htm
Annie Kenney
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wkenney.htm
Jessie Kenney
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WkenneyJ.htm
Aeta Lamb
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WlambA.htm
Mary Leigh
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WleighM.htm
Victoria Lidiard
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wlidiard.htm
Charlotte Despard
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wdespard.htm
Elsie Duval
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wduval.htm
Helen Fraser
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WfraserH.htm
Mary Gawthorpe
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wgawthorpe.htm
Margaret Haig Thomas
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whaig.htm
Vera Holme
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WholmeV.htm
Hilda Brackenbury
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WbrackenburyH.htm
Georgina Brackenbury
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WbrackenburyS.htm
Marie Brackenbury
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WbrackenburyM.htm
Laura Ainsworth
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WainsworthL.htm
Louisa Garrett Anderson
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wgarrett.htm
Rachel Barrett
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WbarrettR.htm
Jane Brailsford
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wbrailsford.htm
Mary Clarke
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WclarkeM.htm
Clara Codd
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wclodd.htm
Helen Crawfurd
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/CRIcrawfordH.htm
Emily Wilding Davison
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wdavison.htm
Constance Lytton
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wlytton.htm
Edith Mansell Moullin
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wmansell.htm
Kitty Marion
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WmarionK.htm
Dora Marsden
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WmarsdenD.htm
Charlotte Marsh
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WmarshCH.htm
Christabel Marshall
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WmarshallC.htm
Hannah Mitchell
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wmitchell.htm
Dora Montefiore
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wmontefefiore.htm
Flora Murray
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WmurrayF.htm
Adela Pankhurst
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WpankhurstA.htm
Christabel Pankhurst
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WpankhurstC.htm
Emmeline Pankhurst
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WpankhurstE.htm
Sylvia Pankhurst
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WpankhurstS.htm
