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The British suffragist who led the movement to victory tells her story of tireless activism in an unforgettable memoir. Pankhurst grew up acutely aware of the prevailing attitude of her day: men were considered superior to women. She was only fourteen years old when she attended her first meeting for women's suffrage. Throughout her career she endured humiliation, imprisonment and repeated frustration of her goals by men in power, but she rose to become a leading light in the suffrage movement. Written at the outset of the First World War and notable for its depictions of the British prison system, My Story is an invaluable document of a life dedicated to others, of a moment in history when an oppressed group rose up to defend the simplest of the demands: equality. Pankhurst developed a confrontational style of protest that would see her and her supporters arrested many times before eventually all women over the age of twenty-one were given the right to vote. In 1927 she would run for Parliament. Told in her own words, this is the story of Pankhurst's organizing and outrage, hardship and hunger strikes, and her dogged determination to dismantle the many obstacles designed to prevent her and all women from claiming freedom. her. My story is a record of one woman's tireless struggle for the good of many others.