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Emily Davison wearing her Holloway brooch and hunger strike medal, c. 1910–1912. Emily Wilding Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century.
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.
Lady Constance Georgina Bulwer-Lytton (12 February 1869 [1] – 2 May 1923), usually known as Constance Lytton, was an influential British suffragette activist, writer, speaker and campaigner for prison reform, votes for women, and birth control.
Marjorie Hasler was born around 1887 in Ireland, with nothing else known about her early life or family.She joined the Irish Women's Franchise League (IWFL) in July 1910. . On 18 November 1910 Hasler was one of the Irish deputies who travelled to London to support Emmeline Pankhurst with her petition to H. H. Asquith, the British Prime Minist
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.
A suffragette was a member of an activist women's organisation in the early 20th century who, ... and for fear of her becoming a martyr, [54] ...
Inez Milholland Boissevain (August 6, 1886 – November 25, 1916) was a leading American suffragist, lawyer, and peace activist.. From her college days at Vassar College, she campaigned aggressively for women’s rights as the principal issue of a wide-ranging socialist agenda.
Her children included suffragette Constance Bulwer-Lytton. Life. Edith Villiers was born on 15 September 1841, into the aristocratic Villiers family. She was the ...