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This is a list of British suffragists and suffragettes who were born in the British Isles or whose lives and works are closely associated with it. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The front page of The Daily Mirror, 19 November 1910, showing a suffragette on the ground.. Black Friday was a suffragette demonstration in London on 18 November 1910, in which 300 women marched to the Houses of Parliament as part of their campaign to secure voting rights for women.
Suffragists and suffragettes, often members of different groups and societies, used or use differing tactics. Australians called themselves "suffragists" during the nineteenth century while the term "suffragette" was adopted in the earlier twentieth century by some British groups after it was coined as a dismissive term in a newspaper article.
Both suffragettes and police spoke of a "Reign of Terror"; newspaper headlines referred to "Suffragette Terrorism". [45] One suffragette, Emily Davison, died under the King's horse, Anmer, at The Derby on 4 June 1913. It is debated whether she was trying to pull down the horse, attach a suffragette scarf or banner to it, or commit suicide to ...
A suffragette arrested in the street by two police officers in London in 1914. 1818: Jeremy Bentham advocates female suffrage in his book A Plan for Parliamentary Reform. The Vestries Act 1818 allowed some single women to vote in parish vestry elections. [9] 1832: Great Reform Act – confirmed the exclusion of women from the electorate.
Pages in category "British suffragettes" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Anna Alma-Tadema; B.
Lady Constance Georgina Bulwer-Lytton (12 February 1869 [1] – 22 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.
Women's Sunday was a suffragette march and rally held in London on 21 June 1908. Organised by Emmeline Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) to persuade the Liberal government to support votes for women, it is thought to have been the largest demonstration to be held until then in the country.