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As a result of her action Davison suffered discomfort for the rest of her life. [21] Her arson of postboxes was not authorised by the WSPU leadership and this, together with her other actions, led to her falling out of favour with the organisation; Sylvia Pankhurst later wrote that the WSPU leadership wanted "to discourage... [Davison] in such tendencies... She was condemned and ostracized as a self-willed person who persisted in acting upon her own initiative without waiting for official instructions." [58] A statement Davison wrote on her release from prison for The Suffragette—the second official newspaper of the WSPU—was published by the union after her death. [1] [59] This cause was taken up by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), a large organisation in Britain, that lobbied for women's suffrage led by militant suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. [46] The WSPU campaigned to get imprisoned suffragettes recognised as political prisoners. However, this campaign was largely unsuccessful. Citing a fear that the suffragettes becoming political prisoners would make for easy martyrdom, [47] and with thoughts from the courts and the Home Office that they were abusing the freedoms of the First Division to further the agenda of the WSPU, [48] suffragettes were placed in the Second Division, and in some cases the Third Division, in prisons, with no special privileges granted to them as a result. [49] Hunger strikes and force-feeding [ edit ] Suffragette being force-fed At the commencement of World War I, the suffragette movement in Britain moved away from suffrage activities and focused on the war effort, and as a result, hunger strikes largely stopped. [65] In August 1914, the British Government released all prisoners who had been incarcerated for suffrage activities on an amnesty, [66] with Pankhurst ending all militant suffrage activities soon after. [67] The suffragettes' focus on war work turned public opinion in favour of their eventual partial enfranchisement in 1918. [68] Jones, J. Graham. "Lloyd George and the Suffragettes", National Library of Wales Journal (2003) 33#1 pp. 1–34

Dress & the Suffragettes". Chertsey Museum. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021 . Retrieved 25 June 2021. Thorpe, Vanessa (26 May 2013). "Truth Behind the Death of Suffragette Emily Davison is Finally Revealed". The Observer. Archived from the original on 13 July 2014 . Retrieved 14 December 2016. Purvis, June (2013a). "Remembering Emily Wilding Davison (1872–1913)". Women's History Review. 22 (3): 353–362. doi: 10.1080/09612025.2013.781405. S2CID 163114123. Archived from the original on 2 March 2021 . Retrieved 23 December 2019. Colours, Crest & Mace". Edge Hill University. 31 January 2013. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014 . Retrieved 5 October 2014.

This is Emily Wilding Davison.

Lilly Maxwell cast a high-profile vote in Britain in 1867 after the Great Reform Act of 1832. [12] Maxwell, a shop owner, met the property qualifications that otherwise would have made her eligible to vote had she been male. In error, her name had been added to the election register and on that basis she succeeded in voting in a by-election – her vote was later declared illegal by the Court of Common Pleas. The case gave women's suffrage campaigners great publicity. Pankhurst, Sylvia (1911). The suffragette; the history of the women's militant suffrage movement, 1905–1910. New York: Sturgis & Walton Company.

Fletcher, Ian Christopher (1996). " "A Star Chamber of the Twentieth Century".: Suffragettes, Liberals, and the 1908 "Rush the Commons" Case". Journal of British Studies. 35 (4): 504–530. doi: 10.1086/386120. ISSN 0021-9371. JSTOR 176002. S2CID 159712596. Archived from the original on 10 September 2021 . Retrieved 12 June 2021. The colours of green and heliotrope (purple) were commissioned into a new coat of arms for Edge Hill University in Lancashire in 2006, symbolising the university's early commitment to the equality of women through its beginnings as a women-only college. [96] Equal Franchise Act 1928". UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 26 September 2017 . Retrieved 16 July 2017.Grant, Kevin (2011). "British suffragettes and the Russian method of hunger strike". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 53 (1): 113–143. doi: 10.1017/S0010417510000642. S2CID 143476849. On 14 June 1913 Davison's body was transported from Epsom to London; her coffin was inscribed "Fight on. God will give the victory." [102] Five thousand women formed a procession, followed by hundreds of male supporters, that took the body between Victoria and Kings Cross stations; the procession stopped at St George's, Bloomsbury for a brief service [103] led by its vicar, Charles Baumgarten, and Claude Hinscliff, who were members of the Church League for Women's Suffrage. [104] The women marched in ranks wearing the suffragette colours of white and purple, which The Manchester Guardian described as having "something of the deliberate brilliance of a military funeral"; [103] 50,000 people lined the route. [105] The event, which was organised by Grace Roe, [104] is described by June Purvis, Davison's biographer, as "the last of the great suffragette spectacles". [96] Emmeline Pankhurst planned to be part of the procession, but she was arrested on the morning, ostensibly to be returned to prison under the "Cat and Mouse" Act (1913). [82] [103] [l] Two further petitions were presented to parliament in May 1867 and Mill also proposed an amendment to the 1867 Reform Act to give women the same political rights as men, but the amendment was treated with derision and defeated by 196 votes to 73. [15]

Anon (20 July 1908). "Women Suffrage: The Demonstration in Heaton Park: A Great Gathering". The Manchester Guardian.

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Wingerden, Sophia A. van (1999). The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain, 1866–1928. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-66911-2. Brown, Jonathan (24 May 2013). "Suffragette Emily Davison: The woman who would not be silenced". The Independent. Archived from the original on 22 June 2013 . Retrieved 31 August 2017. In the same year that John Stuart Mill was elected (1865), the first ladies' discussion society, Kensington Society, was formed, debating whether women should be involved in public affairs. [13] Although a society for suffrage was proposed, this was turned down on the grounds that it might be taken over by extremists. Although the Isle of Man (a British Crown dependency) had enfranchised women who owned property to vote in parliamentary (Tynwald) elections in 1881, New Zealand was the first self-governing country to grant all women the right to vote in 1893, when women over the age of 21 were permitted to vote in all parliamentary elections. [6] Women in South Australia achieved the same right and became the first to obtain the right to stand for parliament in 1895. [9] In the United States, women over the age of 21 were allowed to vote in the western territoriesof Wyoming from 1869 and Utah from 1870, as well as in the states of Colorado and Idaho from 1893 and 1896 respectively. [10] [11] British suffragettes [ edit ] The issue of parliamentary reform declined along with the Chartists after 1848 and only reemerged with the election of John Stuart Mill in 1865. He stood for office showing direct support for female suffrage and was an MP in the run up to the second Reform Act.

Geddes, J. F. (2008). "Culpable Complicity: the medical profession and the forcible feeding of suffragettes, 1909–1914". Women's History Review. 17 (1): 79–94. doi: 10.1080/09612020701627977. S2CID 145175769. Miller, Ian (2009). "Necessary Torture? Vivisection, Suffragette Force-Feeding, and Responses to Scientific Medicine in Britain c. 1870–1920". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 64 (3): 333–372. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrp008. PMID 19357183. S2CID 41978888.Although some sources, including Colmore and Purvis, state that Davison was employed in the Information Department of the union, the journalist Fran Abrams writes that Davison was never a salaried member of WSPU staff, but she was paid for the articles she provided for Votes for Women. [43] Greer, Germaine (1 June 2013). "Emily Davison: was she really a suffragette martyr?". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 3 December 2017 . Retrieved 5 April 2018.