Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst Memorial, Victoria Tower Gardens, London, June 2015; photograph by Sharon Crozier-De Rosa.

‘The garden setting has worked to domesticate Pankhurst. There is little about her statue that suggests militancy. Rather than recalling Pankhurst’s disruptive character, the monument evokes a sense of solid citizenship.’ Crozier-De Rosa & Makie, Remembering Women’s Activism, p. 27.

The Pankhurst Centre, Manchester, June 2015; photograph by Sharon Crozier-De Rosa.

‘The main attraction is the reconstruction of the parlour where the WSPU was formed (Figure 1.5). Here visitors are confronted with the theme of women’s past rejection of their confinement to the domestic sphere and their simultaneous use of this private space to launch their political protest movements (not unlike monuments to the US suffrage movement discussed below). The WSPU, though, certainly moved on from these domestic beginnings to assume a very visible, public presence on the political landscape.’ Crozier-De Rosa & Mackie, Remembering Women’s Activism, p. 38.

Statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in St Peter's Square in Manchester, her home town. Sculpted by Hazel Reeves (2018). Credit: By Delusion23 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75413828