In 1903 the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was formed. Along with her daughters, Christabel and Sylvia, the leader of the WSPU, Emmeline Pankhurst, campaigned for "votes for women". With the WSPU's deliberate policy of lawbreaking, the Pankhursts were arrested and imprisoned many times, suffering the horrors of forced-feeding when they went on hunger strike. Christabel worked closely with her mother and took over the running of the organisation during her mother's frequent imprisonments, while Sylvia set up branches in the East End of London for working class women. An advocate of birth control and free love, Sylvia hit the headlines when, at the age of 46, she had a baby "without the ties of marriage", she said. Emmeline Pankhurst died that same year, 1928 - also the year that finally saw women being granted the vote on equal terms with men.
