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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 ...
In one of the more serious suffragette attacks, a fire was purposely started at Portsmouth dockyard on 20 December 1913, in which 2 men were killed after it spread through the industrial area. [ 80 ] [ 81 ] [ 82 ] In the midst of the firestorm, a battlecruiser, HMS Queen Mary , had to be towed to safety to avoid the flames. [ 81 ]
The Suffragette was a newspaper associated with the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom, as "the Official Organ of the Women’s Social and Political Union" (WSPU). It replaced the previous journal of the organization, Vote for Women, in 1912, and its name changed to Britannia after the outbreak of World War I. [1]
Anna Petronella van Heerden (1887–1975) – campaigned for women's suffrage in the 1920s and the first Afrikaner woman to qualify as a medical doctor [13] Mary Emma Macintosh (died 1916) – suffragist and the first President of the Women's Enfranchisement Association of the Union [14]
Mary Jane Clarke (née Goulden; 1862–1910) was a British suffragette. She died on Christmas Day 1910, two days after being released from prison, where she had been force-fed. She was described in her obituary by Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence as the suffragettes’ first martyr. She was the younger sister of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst.
Lilian Ida Lenton (5 January 1891 – 28 October 1972) was an English dancer and militant suffragette, and later a winner of a French Red Cross medal for her service as an orderly in World War I. [1] She committed crimes, including arson, for the suffragette cause. In 1970 she was invited to unveil the Suffragette Memorial.
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
[8] [9] The Militant school posits that militancy and suffrage historically go hand in hand, and therefore militancy was a justified, historically proven means to an end. [5] As well as justifying the actions of Suffragettes, the Militant school also posits that it was Suffragettes alone who ensured the success of the Suffrage campaign.