[1] In her youth Sophia was described as being ‘an unusually good-looking young lady’[4] and it is likely that she met Robert Goulden through the boarding house, whether he visited it on business or on holiday.

Later in her life, Emmeline was to write of her parents:[2]‘Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.

Then aged 14, Emmeline left the meeting ‘a confirmed suffragist.’[2] The speaker they saw that day was Lydia Becker,[2] who was to play an important role in the Isle of Man's becoming the first country in the world to grant votes to women in 1881.

[3] She left an estate worth £789 15s 1d and a will which stated that ‘the share which any female shall take under this my will shall be for her sole and separate use independently of any husband and of his debts.’[6] Sophia did not live to see her daughter Mary become the first suffragette to die for the cause later that year.

'[7][8] In September 2018, a blue plaque in her honour was unveiled at her former home on Strathallan Crescent in Douglas on the Isle of Man where she lived at the end on her life.

Her great-great-granddaughter, Helen Pankhurst said: "Sophia's role as a campaigner in the movement, and as mother guiding the interest of her more famous daughter, have so far received insufficient recognition.