[3] Pankhurst attended the all-woman Studley Horticultural College in Warwickshire, and Manchester High School for Girls.

As a teenager, Pankhurst became involved in the militant Women's Social and Political Union founded by her mother and sisters.

Nine women were arrested, including Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Anne Cobden-Sanderson, Charlotte Despard, Teresa Billington-Greig, Mary Gawthorpe, Dora Montefiore.

Although she went on hunger strike there, she was not force-fed as prison governor and medical supervisor assessed her "heart's action as violent and laboured".

Mary Blathwayt's parents planted trees there between April 1909 and July 1911 to commemorate the achievements of suffragettes including Pankhurst's mother and sister, Christabel as well as Annie Kenney, Charlotte Despard, Millicent Fawcett and Lady Lytton.

Her experience of activism enabled her to be recruited during World War I as an organiser for the Women's Peace Army in Melbourne by Vida Goldstein.

[16] Pankhurst wrote a book called Put Up the Sword, penned a number of anti-war pamphlets,[15] and addressed public meetings, speaking against war and conscription.

In 1916 she travelled through New Zealand addressing large crowds, and again toured New South Wales and Queensland arguing the importance of feminist opposition to militarism.

Prime Minister Billy Hughes offered to commute her sentence under the condition that she never gave a speech again.

Pankhurst refused Hughes' terms and only weeks after being married returned to jail to serve her four-month sentence.

A petition was signed by other suffragettes advocating on behalf of her release, but it was ineffective and she served her full sentence.

[16] Her name and picture (and those of 58 other women's suffrage supporters) are on the plinth of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London, unveiled in 2018.