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This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize– their goals.
Edith Hacon (1875–1952) – suffragist from Dornoch, World War One nursing volunteer and international socialite; Florence Haig (1856–1952) – Scottish artist and suffragette who was decorated for imprisonments and hunger strikes. Cicely Hale (1884–1981) – health visitor and author; worked for the WSPU and The Suffragette
At the commencement of World War I, the suffragette movement in Britain moved away from suffrage activities and focused on the war effort, and as a result, hunger strikes largely stopped. [69] In August 1914, the British Government released all prisoners who had been incarcerated for suffrage activities on an amnesty, [ 70 ] with Pankhurst ...
Oreola Williams Haskell (1875–1953) – prolific author and poet, who worked alongside other notable suffrage activists, such as Carrie Chapman Catt, Mary Garrett Hay, and Ida Husted Harper. [72] Mary Garrett Hay (1857–1928) – suffrage organizer around the United States. [73] Elsie Hill (1883–1970) – NWP activist. [74]
An attempt to achieve equal franchise gained national attention when an envoy of 300 women, representing over 125,000 suffragettes, argued for women's suffrage with the Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. The Prime Minister agreed with their argument but "was obliged to do nothing at all about it" and so urged the women to "go on ...
Isle of Man: all adults could vote or be elected, widows and single women who owned property could vote from 1881. Jamaica (British Crown Colony) Limited suffrage granted to women of twenty-five years or more, who earned £50 or more per year, or paid taxes of £2. (Universal adult suffrage not granted until 1944.) [59] [60]
Sarah Jane Baines (30 November 1866 – 20 February 1951) was a British-Australian feminist, suffragette and social reformer. [1] She was the first suffragette to be tried by jury, [2] and one of the first hunger strikers. She was known as 'Jennie Baines' in the suffragist movement. [3]
Indian suffragists on the Women's Coronation Procession of 1911, including Lolita Roy on the left.. Lolita Roy (born in 1865), [1] also known as Mrs. P. L. Roy, was an Indian social reformer and suffragist [1] who played an active role in the social life of Indians in London, as well as in campaigns for women's suffrage in Britain and India. [1]