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Emmeline Pankhurst and her adopted children, Mary, Joan and Kathleen and Elizabeth.

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English suffragettes Emmeline Pankhurst, and her daughter Christabel Emmeline Pankhurst Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images.

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In the centenary year of the 1918 Representation of the People Act, women’s struggle to obtain the right to vote in the UK has been strongly identified with its leading protagonists, the Pankhurst family. The rifts between Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia have become almost as famous as the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), the organisation they founded in 1903.

However, more often than not, Emmeline Pankhurst’s youngest daughter, Adela, is missing from the discussion. Adela was born in Manchester in 1885, the third Pankhurst daughter. She enjoyed a thoroughly genteel middle-class upbringing, like the rest of her siblings, and by the early 20th century, despite her mother’s objections, trained to be a teacher.

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In 1903, along with her mother and sisters, she helped to form the WSPU and the militant campaign for suffrage was born.

Like many campaigning women, Adela spent time in prison for the cause. She was one of several suffragettes arrest