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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.
The reclusive phase of Lytton's life started to change in 1905 when she was left £1,000 in the estate of her great-aunt/godmother, Lady Bloomfield. [3] [20] She donated this to the revival of Morris dancing [3] and her family records state that "Her brother Neville suggested that she gave it to the Esperance Club, a small singing and dancing group for working class girls", [6] where part of ...
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
Jessie Stephen, British suffragette and labour activist, attended church and socialist Sunday Schools [28] Táhirih, Iranian suffragist and women's rights advocate, theologian of the Babi faith, "first suffrage martyr", venerated by Bahais and Azalis
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]
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.
suffragette organizer, women's rights leader Frances Willard: 1839 1898 United States: women's rights activist, woman suffrage leader Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin: 1842 1924 United States: suffragist, editor, co-founder of the first chapter of the NAACP: Kate Sheppard: 1848 1934 New Zealand: suffragist in first country to have universal suffrage ...