My Own Story is Emmeline Pankhurst's memoir of the British women's suffrage struggle. Through personal testimony, it portrays the militant suffragette movement and the political pressures of her time. It is worth listening to as a historical source and a human story of perseverance.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
MRS. PANKHURST'S OWN STORY E. Pankhurst MY OWN STORY BY EMMELINE PANKHURST Logo ILLUSTRATED LONDON EVELEIGH NASH 1914 Copyright, 1914, by Hearsts's International Library Co., Inc. All rights reserved, including the translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian.
CONTENTS BOOK I The Making of a Militant CHAPTER PAGE I 1 II 18 III 37 IV 57 BOOK II Four Years of Peaceful Militancy CHAPTER PAGE I 81 II 97 III 116 IV 131 V 149 VI 160 VII 166 VIII 185 BOOK III The Women's Revolution CHAPTER PAGE I 205 II 221 III 249 IV 270 V 285 VI 303 VII 323 VIII 339
IX 350 ILLUSTRATIONS Portrait of Mrs. Pankhurst Frontispiece FACING PAGE Mrs. Pankhurst addressing a by-election crowd 74 Mrs. Pankhurst and Christabel hiding from the police on the roof garden at Clements Inn, October, 1908 120 Christabel, Mrs. Drummond and Mrs. Pankhurst in the dock, First Conspiracy Trial, October, 1908 126 Mrs. Pankhurst and Miss Christabel Pankhurst in prison dress 132 Inspector Wells conducting Mrs. Pankhurst to the House of Commons, June, 1908 140 Over 1,000 women had been in prison—Broad arrows in the 1910 parade 170 The head of the deputation on Black Friday, November, 1910 178 For hours scenes like this were enacted on Black Friday, November, 1910 180 Riot scenes on Black Friday, November, 1910 186 In this manner thousands of women throughout the Kingdom slept in unoccupied houses over census night 194
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