Agitation in Great Britain for woman suffrage reached a peak during the turbulent years of parliamentary reform, 1909-1911. Under the leadership of Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) and her daughter Christabel, women engaged in demonstrations, disrupted political meetings, and when dragged off to jail, resorted to passive resistanceand hunger strikes. Some hunger strikers were subjected to the cruelty of force feeding. In 1913 Emmeline Pankhurst carried her appeal to the United States, where she de