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An arson attack on the semaphore tower in Portsmouth dockyard in December 1913 killed 2 men. In early June 1913, a series of fires purposely started in rural areas in Bradford killed at least two men, as well as several horses. [70] The acts were officially "claimed" by the suffragettes in their official newspaper, The Suffragette. [70]
Anna Petronella van Heerden (1887–1975) – campaigned for women's suffrage in the 1920s and the first Afrikaner woman to qualify as a medical doctor [13] Mary Emma Macintosh (died 1916) – suffragist and the first President of the Women's Enfranchisement Association of the Union [14]
[2] [3] In 1906, a reporter writing in the Daily Mail coined the term suffragette for the WSPU, derived from suffragist α (any person advocating for voting rights), in order to belittle the women advocating women's suffrage. [4] The militants embraced the new name, even adopting it for use as the title of the newspaper published by the WSPU. [4]
An attempt to achieve equal franchise gained national attention when an envoy of 300 women, representing over 125,000 suffragettes, argued for women's suffrage with the Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. The Prime Minister agreed with their argument but "was obliged to do nothing at all about it" and so urged the women to "go on ...
Votes for Women was a newspaper associated with the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. Until 1912, it was the official newspaper of the Women's Social and Political Union, the leading suffragette organisation.
Kenney was born in 1879 in Springhead, West Riding of Yorkshire, to Horatio Nelson Kenney (1849–1912) and Anne Wood (1852–1905). [3] She was the fourth daughter in a family of twelve children, eleven of whom survived infancy. [4]
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.
She joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1908, engaged in selling their newspaper Votes for Women and became a prominent suffragette in the United Kingdom for her participation in civil unrest protests including riots and arson. [2] As a result, Marion was arrested many times and is known for having endured 232 force-feedings ...