Editing Emmeline Pankhurst (section)

== Illness and death ==
[[File:Emmeline_Pankhurst_grave_Brompton_Cemetery_(3).jpg|thumb|right|Pankhurst's grave in Brompton Cemetery. The gravestone was sculpted by [[Julian Phelps Allan]]<ref name="Bartley, p. 230">Bartley, p. 230.</ref>]]
[[File:Emmeline_Pankhurst_grave_Brompton_Cemetery_(1).jpg|thumb|right|Gravestone inscription:<br>''IN LOVING MEMORY OF EMMELINE PANKHURST, WIFE OF R M PANKHURST LLD, AT REST JUNE 14 1928'']]
[[File:Emmeline Pankhurst 50 Clarendon Road blue plaque.jpg|thumb|Blue plaque, 50 [[Clarendon Road]], London]]
Pankhurst's campaign for Parliament was preempted by her ill health and a final scandal involving Sylvia. The years of touring, lectures, imprisonment and hunger strikes had taken their toll; fatigue and illness became a regular part of Pankhurst's life. Even more painful, however, was the news in April 1928 that Sylvia had given birth out of wedlock. She had named the child [[Richard Pankhurst (Ethiopianist)|Richard Keir Pethick Pankhurst]], in memory of her father, her ILP comrade, and her colleagues from the WSPU respectively. Emmeline was further shocked to see a report from a newspaper in the US that declared that "Miss Pankhurst" – a title usually reserved for Christabel – boasted of her child being a triumph of "[[eugenics]]", since both parents were healthy and intelligent. In the article, Sylvia also spoke of her belief that "marriage without legal union" was the most sensible option for liberated women. These offences against the social dignity which Pankhurst had always valued devastated the elderly woman; to make matters worse, many people believed the "Miss Pankhurst" in newspaper headlines referred to Christabel. After hearing the news, Emmeline spent an entire day crying; her campaign for Parliament ended with the scandal.<ref>Purvis 2002, pp. 349–350.</ref>

As her health deteriorated, Pankhurst moved into a [[nursing home]] in [[Hampstead]]. She requested that she be treated by the doctor who attended to her during her hunger strikes. His use of the [[gastric lavage|stomach pump]] had helped her feel better while in prison; her nurses were sure that the shock of such treatment would severely wound her, but Christabel felt obliged to carry out her mother's request. Before the procedure could be carried out, however, she fell into a critical condition from which none expected her to recover. On Thursday, 14 June 1928, Pankhurst died at the age of 69.<ref>Purvis 2002, pp. 350–352; Bartley, pp. 227–228.</ref>

She was interred in [[Brompton Cemetery]] in London.<ref name="Bartley, p. 230" /> Her pallbearers were the former WSPU suffragettes [[Georgina Brackenbury|Georgiana Brackenbury]], [[Marie Brackenbury]], [[Marion Wallace Dunlop]], [[Harriet Kerr]], [[Mildred Mansel]], [[Katherine "Kitty" Marshall|Kitty Marshall]], [[Marie Naylor]], [[Ada Wright]] and [[Barbara Wylie]].<ref>Purvis, p. 253.</ref>