Rise up, Women (Emmeline Pankhurst statue)
Bronze sculpture in St Peter's Square, Manchester depicting Emmeline Pankhurst / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rise up, Women, also known as Our Emmeline,[1] is a bronze sculpture of Emmeline Pankhurst in St Peter's Square, Manchester. Pankhurst was a British political activist and leader of the suffragette movement in the United Kingdom. Hazel Reeves sculpted the figure[2] and designed the Meeting Circle[3] that surrounds it.
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'Our Emmeline' | |
Artist | Hazel Reeves |
Year | 2018 |
Type | Bronze |
Location | St Peter's Square Manchester, M2 3AE United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 53°28′40″N 2°14′35″W |
The statue was unveiled on 14 December 2018, the centenary of the 1918 United Kingdom general election, the first election in the United Kingdom in which women over the age of 30 could vote.[4] It is the first statue honouring a woman erected in Manchester since a statue of Queen Victoria was dedicated more than 100 years ago.[5][6]