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The Suffragette was a newspaper associated with the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom, as "the Official Organ of the Women’s Social and Political Union" (WSPU). It replaced the previous journal of the organization, Vote for Women , in 1912, and its name changed to Britannia after the outbreak of World War I .
Until 1912, it was the official newspaper of the Women's Social and Political Union, the leading suffragette organisation. Subsequently, it continued with a smaller circulation, at first independently, and then as the publication of the United Suffragists. The paper was succeeded by The Suffragette.
Louise Eates (1877–1944) – suffragette, chair of Kensington Women's Social and Political Union and a women's education activist; Maude Edwards (fl. 1914) – suffragette who was force-fed in prison despite having a heart condition; Norah Elam (1878–1961) – prominent member of the WSPU; imprisoned three times
On 30 April 1913, Kerr was arrested alongside Beatrice Sanders, Rachel Barrett, Agnes Lake (business manager of The Suffragette newspaper) and Flora Drummond when police raided the WSPU offices. [6] She was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment with hard labour for conspiracy to do wilful damage to property, [ 7 ] even though she had not yet ...
Methven took part in suffragette protests and was arrested for breaking windows in London in 1911. [2] She wrote an article for The Suffragette newspaper, the weekly newspaper of the WSPU, entitled Women's Suffrage in the Past, A Record of Betrayal which reflected on the history of the women's suffrage movement in Britain. [3]
The Suffragette newspaper was renamed Britannia, and Harding edited this for five months into 1915. [3] Eventually the Pankhursts had to let her go through lack of funds. Harding landed a job at the Gretna Munitions factory in Scotland, providing social assistance to the women who worked there under terrible conditions.
Rachel Barrett (12 November 1874 – 26 August 1953) was a Welsh suffragette and newspaper editor born in Carmarthen.Educated at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth she became a science teacher, but quit her job in 1906 on hearing Nellie Martel speak of women's suffrage, joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and moved to London.
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 ...