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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.
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 .
Suffragetto box. Suffragetto was a board game published in the United Kingdom around 1908 by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) [1] and manufactured by Sargeant Bros. Ltd. [2] [3] In modern terms, it was developed to "enact feminist ideology in a hybrid fantasy-real world environment" [4] to support the activist strategies of the suffragettes.
Edith Hacon (1875–1952) – suffragist from Dornoch, World War One nursing volunteer and international socialite; Florence Haig (1856–1952) – Scottish artist and suffragette who was decorated for imprisonments and hunger strikes. Cicely Hale (1884–1981) – health visitor and author; worked for the WSPU and The Suffragette
28 November to 3 December 1912: As part of a 5-day long nationwide pillar box sabotage campaign, a number of letter bombs are sent by suffragettes, many of which burst into flames at post offices around the country. [4] [5] [1] [6]
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 ]
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.
Maud Joachim (1 August 1869 – 16 February 1947) was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union, one of the groups of suffragettes that fought for women to get the right to vote in the United Kingdom. She was jailed several times for her protests.