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  2. Emily Davison - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Lady Constance Bulwer-Lytton - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Mary Jane Clarke - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Marjorie Hasler - Wikipedia

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    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

  6. Inez Milholland - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. ‘12 Badass Women’ by Huffington Post

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    Rosa Parks. Susan B. Anthony. Helen Keller. These are a few of the women whose names spark instant recognition of their contributions to American history.

  8. Edith Bulwer-Lytton, Countess of Lytton - Wikipedia

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    Lady Constance Georgina Bulwer-Lytton, born at Vienna (1869–1923), [1] British suffragette activist. Hon. Henry Meredith Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1872–1874) Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton (1874–1964) who married the architect Edwin Lutyens. Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton, (1876–1947) [1]

  9. Suffragette - Wikipedia

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    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 ...