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Arrest of Emmeline Pankhurst, London, 13 February 1908. Suffrage campaigner Emmeline Pankhurst was charged with obstructing a policeman while on a deputation to the House of Commons. The next day she received a sentence of six weeks in Holloway prison. The deputation to the Commons followed a meeting at Caxton Hall, where the Suffragettes learned that no mention of women's suffrage was to be made in the King's [ie Edward VII's] Speech. Mrs. Pankhurst can be seen here carrying a scroll of paper on which was written the resolution of the meeting. She was also limping, following an injury sustained the previous month (at a Devon by-election) in an altercation with Liberal party supporters. From "The Suffragette Movement. An intimate account of persons and ideals" by E Sylvia Pankhurst [Emmeline's daughter]. [1931].