So that's Boadicea, Elizabeth 1, Emmeline Pankhurst and Margaret Thatcher... what do you think?

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Mrs Pankhurst also brought her daughters up to fight for women's rights, and the whole family helped develop the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.

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Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the Women's Social and Political Union, described the contribution Emily Davison believed her death would make in her autobiography, My Own Story.

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The hotel will house a barbecue restaurant and a pub, as well as Emmeline, a cocktail bar named for Emmeline Pankhurst, a leader of the suffragette movement.

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Christabel Pankhurst polled the most votes at the election but failed to gain a seat: the only woman to be elected, Constance Markievicz, did not campaign and, as a Sinn Fein member, never took her seat.

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It would go on to host performances and lectures delivered by Irish dramatist and political thinker George Bernard Shaw, Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton and Pankhurst, one of the leading figures in the campaign for votes for women.

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The British suffragettes, who often exchanged battle tactics with their American cousins, were led by clever middle-class women such as Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958), who gained a first-class law degree, but was barred from practising in all-male courts.

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