... political organisation of a whole constituency - but not to vote It was a long and hard fight for Mrs Pankhurst and her suffragettes before women got the vole. No young pe rson today is going to throw him or herself under the Queen's horse to get the vote ...

... cathedral. The service marked the jubilee year of the church's restoration. It was burned down in 1914, by. it is believed. Suffragettes. The candidates presented to the Bishop by the Rural Dean of Sonning, the Rev. F. J. E. Britnell, at the Ordination were ...

... must be even worse if you're not able to vote, you are a woman, your name is Pankhurst. and you're related to the famous suffragette leaders. That's what happened to Miss Anne Pankhurst. who lives in a flat at 36 Mansfield Road. Reading. She is a second ...

... and sympathy. the suffragette• deliberately had themselves arrested. Once in prison. many of them went on hunger strike. There were ugly reports of police brutality when they broke up meetings and arrested the rebellious suffragettes. The hunger strikers ...

... was in danger from hunger striking and rearresting them when their condit ion had improved. For the next two years. the suffragettes conducted a campaign of mounting violence. although some. under the leadership of Mrs. Millicent Fawcett. still hoped to ...

... jury man would be guilty. There are other phenomena about which suggest that the garment of responsibility with which the suffragettes invested woman is slipping. They had to combat a barrage of ridicule and blind prejudice levelled at them by the lords ...

... pictures of the leading choir boy sadly looking at the ruins of the Wargrave church, when it was burned down by supposedly Suffragettes. He was John Mayne, of a well-known Wargrave Family noted for their singing. Mr. Mayne, who is now a married man in his ...

... Russell's mother. his parents thus proving that they had the courage of their 'convictions. Hussell stood for Parliament on a suffragette platform in 1907 and was ridiculed with remarks such Does your mother know you're out? and Go home and mind the babv ...

... either insular groups of jam makers and tea brewers gossiping over their knitting, or militant bodies of would-have-been suffragettes, 50 years behind the times. But a look through the agenda and aims of the National Council of Women destroys this theory ...

... n of capital punishment must go on Support must be nationwide. until the Government's hand is forced, as it was by the suffragettes. It could be achieved again by the staunch women of this country, for we are now reaping the full benefit of the Criminal ...

... don't. They are the protesters. If you want to get an effect, you have to do something. And in a century that has seen suffragettes tied to railings. monks in burning petrol and hippies spreading flowers, what you can do must become more and more desperate ...

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