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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 ...
Kitty Marion 12 March 1871 – 9 October 1944) was born Katherina Maria Schäfer in Germany. [1] She emigrated to London in 1886 when she was fifteen, and she grew to minor prominence when she sang in music halls throughout the United Kingdom during the late 19th century. [2]
Fusae Ichikawa (1893–1981) – politician who founded the nation's first women's suffrage organization: the Women's Suffrage League of Japan, president of the New Japan Women's League; Shidzue KatÅ (1897–2001) – politician; Oku Mumeo (1895–1997) – co-founder of the New Women's Association who later served three terms in Japan's ...
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.
Wynonna Judd will appear at an event at Belmont University's Fisher Center on Mar. 27, 2024 honoring Nashville's female singer-songwriter organization
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.
The front page of The Daily Mirror, 19 November 1910, showing a suffragette on the ground.. Black Friday was a suffragette demonstration in London on 18 November 1910, in which 300 women marched to the Houses of Parliament as part of their campaign to secure voting rights for women.
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]