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Suffragette Vote 100 anniversary: Looking back at the women who inspired and led the suffrage movement
Portrait of Millicent Fawcett, who founded the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in 1897 (Image: Getty Images Europe)1 of 14 
Manchester suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst (centre), pictured in January 1913 - 10 years after she and her daughters, Christabel and Sylvia, set up the Women's Political and Social Union in the city (Image: Manchester Evening News Archive)2 of 14 
February 1908 - suffragettes (from left to right, with the driver in the middle) Emmeline Pankhurst, Mary Jane Clark (Emmeline's sister), Charlotte Marsh and Jessie Kelly after being released from Holloway Prison (Image: PA)3 of 14 ![]()
Christabel Pankhurst and Women's Social and Political Union speaker Mary Gawthorpe in Manchester ahead of their 'Votes For Women' meeting at Manchester Trade Hall on January 19 1909 (Image: Manchester Evening News Archive)4 of 14 ![]()
Photo from 1910 of Women's Social and Political Union members on a horse-drawn carriage driven by Emmeline Pankhurst (Image: PA)5 of 14 ![]()
Sylvia Pankhurst at her desk in 1911 (Image: PA)6 of 14 ![]()
Emmeline Pankhurst leaving Bow Street after getting bail on a conspiracy charge in 1912 (Image: PA)7 of 14 ![]()
Suffragette Emily Davidson thew herself in front of the King's horse, Anmer, at the 1913 Epsom Derby (Image: Daily Mirror)8 of 14 ![]()
Emily Davidson died from her injuries (Image: Mirrorpix)9 of 14 ![]()
She was a prominent figure in the suffragette movement (Image: Daily Mirror)10 of 14 ![]()
May 1914 - Emmeline Pankhurst being arrested by police outside Buckingham Palace while trying to present a petition to King George V. The Representation of the People Act was passed into law four years later (Image: PA)11 of 14 ![]()
Sylvia Pankhurst attending a dinner with fellow suffragettes in February 1928 (Image: Daily Mirror)12 of 14 ![]()
Sylvia Pankhurst, pictured here in May 1938, later became an activist in the cause of anti-fascism (Image: Manchester Evening News Archive)13 of 14 ![]()
The Royal Mint has produced a 50p coin, designed by Stephen Taylor, to mark the centenary of the passing through Parliament of the Representation of the People Act (Image: PA)14 of 14
