An article in the Guardian on December 14th 2018 by Helen Pidd, the paper’s North of England editor, said that, “… Thousands of people have turned out in the freezing cold to welcome home Emmeline Pankhurst – the first female statue in Manchester that is not of Queen Victoria.  The Moss Side-born suffragette was the overwhelming winner in a public vote three years ago to choose which woman should be immortalised in bronze, beating the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, the anti-racism campaigner Louise da-Cocodia and “Red” Ellen Wilkinson, the Labour cabinet minister and leader of the Jarrow March.  Members of the public then chose the final design, by sculptor Hazel Reeves.  Reeves chose to portray Pankhurst in full tub-thumping mode, standing on a chair as she rallied a crowd.”

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