0 a woman who campaigned for the right of women to vote, especially a member of the early 20th century British group of activitists led by Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst --
In 1913, suffragettes burned the grandstand to the ground in support of votes for women.
She was a suffragette and one of those who began the campaign for family allowances.
Is it not the fact that until suffragettes were forcibly fed nobody suggested that forcible feeding was not a humane method?
I want to describe some suffragette rough justice from 1910.
Magistrates and prison officials had to deal with 'ordinary ', rank-and-file suffragettes who were often first offenders.
The suffragette gloss justified the ' rushes ' on parliament, the attempts to achieve interviews with ministers by force, and the appeal above the government to the general public.
Provocatively, her definition of the drama is inclusive, encompassing amateur and home theatricals as well as suffragette texts, translations and adaptations, and a distinctive subset of 'paratheatrical' writings.
Its secondary purpose was to get suffragettes into prison.