Broadcast: Oct. 5-Nov. 9, 1975. Dramatized history of women's suffrage struggle in England from 1886-1918 focuses on the Pankhurst family -- four women who mobilized an army of women -- Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, her militant daughter Christabel, her determined pacifist daughter Sylvia, and the youngest Adela. Series also depicts Annie Kenney-the mill girl who brought working-class women into what had been an upper-class struggle; Lady Constance Lytton; and Emily Wilding Davison -- the women's movement's first martyr who threw herself under the King's horse at the Derby. SERIES ALSO AIRED AS SEPARATE SERIES IN 1988, hosted by Jane Alexander.
