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The acts were officially "claimed" by the suffragettes in their official newspaper, The Suffragette. [70] Over the next few months, suffragette attacks continued to threaten death and injury. On 2 June, a suffragette bomb was discovered at the South Eastern District Post Office, London, containing enough nitroglycerine to blow up the entire ...
Anti-suffrage groups were also criticized for being "inconsistent" in that they wanted women out of the public sphere, yet they gathered together into public lobbying groups against suffrage. [108] The Valley Independent wrote in 1915 that any organization that wanted to oppose women's suffrage and which was made up of women "leaves a bad taste ...
Lilian Ida Lenton (5 January 1891 – 28 October 1972) was an English dancer and militant suffragette, and later a winner of a French Red Cross medal for her service as an orderly in World War I. [1] She committed crimes, including arson, for the suffragette cause. In 1970 she was invited to unveil the Suffragette Memorial.
“Learning about the Black Friday of 1910 changed my perspective on suffragettes. They weren’t just early feminists, but genuine, certified badasses.”
Some radical techniques used by the suffragettes were learned from Russian exiles from tsarism who had escaped to England. [40] In 1914, at least seven churches were bombed or set on fire across the United Kingdom, including Westminster Abbey, where an explosion aimed at destroying the 700-year-old Coronation Chair, only caused minor damage. [41]
However, defining the Masculinist school is also the view that women would have been granted this right eventually as the “vehicles of the inevitable historical processes that were the political actions of men”. [22] Suffragettes and their actions are argued to have delayed what Masculinist's propose was a natural and already underway ...
Kenney, who was involved in other militant acts and underwent force-feeding many times, was always determined to confront the authorities and highlight the injustice of the Cat and Mouse Act: a suffragette nickname for the Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act 1913 which allowed prisoners who were ill (especially from hunger strike ...
The three women were ejected from Lord Morley's meeting and were violently arrested by the police. In January 1910 on polling day in Southport, Gawthorpe together with fellow suffragettes Dora Marsden and Mabel Capper, were the subject of a violent assault while demonstrating at the polling booths. In February, the three suffragettes brought ...