On 2 Jul 1928, women over 30 were finally given the right to vote. This victory was hard won. One way or another, women had been campaigning for the right to vote since the early 1830’s with the first suffrage societies formed in the 1860’s. Throughout that time, action was taken through peaceful lobbying. It …
It is interesting to read reports of early attempts to promote the case for women’s suffrage. In this extract from the Bury Free Press, July 1871, Millicent Garrett Fawcett argues against multiple reasons given by men (and anti-suffrage women) against emancipation. She counters all arguments rationally and eloquently, but forty years later the government of the day …
Women’s suffrage was newsworthy and accounts of suffragette militant exploits were often reported nationally, usually negatively. The cruel treatment of those suffragists engaged in acts of peaceful protest is often conveniently forgotten. The two accounts below, taken from The Framlingham News, portray the shocking treatments suffragettes were subjected to in the course of their fight for the vote. Framlingham Weekly …
“One of the women in the group, notably taller than her peers, clapped her hands, “quickly now girls,” she said. “We do not want Millicent to get wind of this.” They hurried down a wide road into a warren of alleyways and presently found themselves at a street corner. The tall woman beckoned them to …
Vote for Murder combines a true Victorian murder with a 1911 story of suffragism and census evasion. Both events were inspired by ancestors within my family tree. But what is the difference between a suffragist & a suffragette? Women’s suffrage was the struggle for the right to vote and stand for electoral office. Throughout the …
Jacqueline Beard Writer 