“Deeds, not words.” In My Own Story, Emmeline Pankhurst tells, in her own forthright voice, how a Manchester mother and widow built the Women's Social and Political Union into the most defiant force in British politics. Here is the complete, unabridged original text of her 1914 memoir — from her childhood and marriage to the reforming lawyer Richard Pankhurst, through the birth of the suffragette movement, to prison, hunger strike, forced feeding, and the cat-and-mouse contest with a government that would not yield the vote. This edition reproduces every word of the public-domain classic and adds a new introduction setting the book in its historical moment, along with reader's notes illuminating the people, places, laws, and events Pankhurst names. Warm, urgent, and astonishingly immediate, it remains essential reading for anyone drawn to women's rights, protest, and the price of conviction. Part of The Founding Texts Library.