Suffragettes

Bow, London - History - Suffragettes
... became increasingly disillusioned with the Suffragette movement's inability to engage with the needs of working class women, like the match girls ... own breakaway movement, the East London Federation of Suffragettes and based it at 198 Bow Road, by the church, in a Baker's shop ...

Suffragists - History - Early 20th Century - Force Feeding English Suffragette Prisoners
... In September 1909, the Home Office became unwilling to release the hunger-striking suffragettes before their sentence was served ... Suffragettes became a liability because if they were to die in the prison’s custody the prison would be responsible for their death, and as a result, English prisons began the practice of force feeding the ... by medical practitioners for sick patients, it posed issues for the healthy suffragettes ...

Suffragists - History - Early 20th Century - Hunger Strikes in English Prisons
... Following the refusal for suffragettes to be recognized as political prisoners, many suffragettes began to stage hunger strikes while they were imprisoned ... a hunger strike was Marion Wallace Dunlop, a militant suffragette who was sentenced to be imprisoned for a month in Holloway for vandalism in July 1909 ... Without the consultation of suffragette leaders such as Pankhurst, Dunlop refused food as a protest for being denied political prisoner status following a 91-hour ...

Augustine Birrell - Birrell and The Suffragettes
... disapproved of the militancy and violence the suffragettes were increasingly espousing ... when he was set upon by a group of about twenty suffragettes who had recognised him ...

List Of Suffragists And Suffragettes
... This is a list of suffragists and suffragettes who were campaigners for women's suffrage ... Suffragists and suffragettes were often members of different societies which had the same aim, but used differing tactics for example, suffragettes in the British usage denotes a ...