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The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was a women-only political movement and leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom founded in 1903. [1] Known from 1906 as the suffragettes , its membership and policies were tightly controlled by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia .
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.
Mary Blathwayt (1 February 1879 – 25 June 1961) [1] was a British feminist, suffragette and social reformer. She lived at Eagle House in Somerset . This house became known as the "Suffragette's Rest" and contained a memorial to the protests of 60 suffragists and suffragettes.
The Suffragette, the newspaper edited by Christabel Pankhurst, Emily Wilding Davison memorial issue. Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst DBE (/ ˈ p æ ŋ k h ər s t /; 22 September 1880 – 13 February 1958) was a British suffragette born in Manchester, England.
Ann "Annie" Kenney (13 September 1879 – 9 July 1953) was an English working-class suffragette and socialist feminist [1] who became a leading figure in the Women's Social and Political Union. She co-founded its first branch in London with Minnie Baldock . [ 2 ]
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The Museum of London holds three pieces of jewellery Mills made for the suffragettes. One is an enamel-and-silver pendant of winged Hope singing outside prison bars with semi-precious stones of purple, green and white, [ 23 ] created to celebrate the release from prison of Louise Eates , Honorary Secretary of the Kensington branch of the WSPU.
Evelina Haverfield (née Scarlett; 9 August 1867 – 21 March 1920) [1] was a British suffragette and aid worker. In the early 20th century, she was involved in Emmeline Pankhurst's militant women's suffrage organisation the Women's Social and Political Union. During World War I she worked as a nurse in Serbia.