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In 1897, the Manchester Women's Suffrage committee had merged with the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) but Emmeline Pankhurst, who was a member of the original Manchester committee, and her eldest daughter Christabel had become impatient with the ILP, and on 10 October 1903, Emmeline Pankhurst held a meeting at her home in ...
Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any ...
[331] [332] Wendy Rouse writes, "Scholars have already begun 'queering' the history of the suffrage movement by deconstructing the dominant narrative that has focused on the stories of elite, white, upper-class suffragists.” [331] Susan Ware says, "To speak of 'queering the suffrage movement' is to identify it as a space where women felt free ...
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]
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.
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.
Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Several instances occurred in recent centuries where women were selectively given, then stripped of, the ...
This is a list of suffragists from the United States and its territories. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (July 2024) A.