5 influential women of history

Please note that this is in no particular order. - Beth

1. Emmeline Pankhurst: Mrs. Pankhurst was a political activist and leader of the Suffragettes. The Suffragettes were a women's organisation who fought for women's rights to votes. Whilst the Suffragettes were fighting for their rights, the did some very radical protests. For instance, they went on hunger strike in prison and were forced fed by tubes through their noses and one woman- Emily Davidson even threw herself under a horse in an attempt to get women to vote. Eventually with all the efforts, women won the right to vote in 1918. Mrs. Pankhurst passed away on 15th July 1928. 
2. Margaret of Anjou: Margaret of Anjou played a major part in the Wars of the Roses. She was the daughter of the king of Naples and married Henry VI in 1445 when she was 15 years old. During the war, her husband, the leader of the Lancastrian side, was ill a lot; as a result, Margaret was the mastermind behind many of the Lancastrian victories. Margaret died in Anjou, France, in 1482, eleven years after Henry VI died in the Tower of London.
3. Amelia Earhart: The first woman ever to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928 was Amelia Earhart. She may have been only the sixth woman to be issued a pilot's license but she defied the beliefs of many men in 1931, when she broke the highest altitude record at 18, 415 feet. Unfortunately she flew across the Pacific Ocean in 1938 and was never found again.
4. Edith Cavell: During the First World War, the 49 year old nurse saved the lives of hundreds of soldiers from both sides by using the Red Cross Hospital that she was working in. At the same time, she was smuggling 200 odd wounded soldiers from the Allies to help them. But she was found guilty of treason and shot by a firing squad. 
5. Irene Sendler: This woman saved the lives of 2,500 Jewish children in the midst of the Holocaust by smuggling them out in suitcases and ambulances from Jewish Ghettos! Irene wrote down all their real and new identities and reunited them were possible with their families after World War II! The details were written down and buried in two glass jars under a tree in her neighbours garden!