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Suffragists and suffragettes, often members of different groups and societies, used or use differing tactics. Australians called themselves "suffragists" during the nineteenth century while the term "suffragette" was adopted in the earlier twentieth century by some British groups after it was coined as a dismissive term in a newspaper article.
Isabel Giberne Sieveking (1857–1936) – suffragette and writer, member of the WSPU in Hastings [27] Frances Simson (1854–1938) – suffragist, campaigner for women's higher education and one of the first of eight women graduates from the University of Edinburgh; May Sinclair (1863–1946) – member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League
Adolphine Fletcher Terry (1882–1976) – author, advocate for women's suffrage, education reform and social justice in Arkansas; Helen Rand Thayer (1863–1935) — member, Advisory Board of the New Hampshire Equal Suffrage Association; M. Carey Thomas (1857–1935) – educator, linguist, and second President of Bryn Mawr College
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The Hutchinson Family Singers helped develop the women's suffrage music tradition. [11] Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote in the History of Woman Suffrage that the family actively worked to help the cause through music, especially in Kansas in 1867. [11] Lucy Stone encouraged the family to help the suffragists as "singing evangelists."
Suffragettes were arrested and imprisoned as they fought for voting rights. Photos from 1912 to 1920 chronicle their efforts and eventual victory.
Constance Markievicz (1868–1927) – politician, revolutionary, suffragette; Florence Moon (fl. 1914) – suffragist, member of the Women's National Health Association; Marguerite Moore (1849–1933) – nationalist activist, suffragist, "first suffragette" Alicia Adelaide Needham (1863–1945) – song composer, suffragette
Mary Windeyer (1836–1912) – women's suffrage campaigner in New South Wales; May Jordan McConnel (1860–1929) – trade unionist and suffragist, member of the Women's Equal Franchise Association; Maybanke Anderson (1845–1927) – promoter of women's and children's rights, campaigner for women's suffrage and federation