Scarica The Suffragette Movement: The Fight for Women's Right to Vote in the UK e più Sintesi del corso in PDF di Cultura Inglese I solo su Docsity! When did the movement start? The movement started in 1897 when Millicent Fawcett founded the - National Union of Women's Suffrage. What does «suffrage» mean? "Suffrage" means the right to vote and that is what women wanted. Who was Millicent Fawcett? What were her ideas? She was a woman that wanted the right for women to vote but believed in peaceful protest. She believed that women could have the same responsibilities as man and even if her progress was very slow she converted some members of the Labour Representation Committee (soon to be the Labour Party) but some men of them believed that women could not understand how the parliament works. For this reason in 1903... 4- 5- What happened in 1903? In 1903 the Women's Social and Political Union was founded by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia. Who was Emmeline Pankhurst? Emmeline Pankhurst is considered one of the leaders of the suffragette movement in Great Britain. In 1889, both Emmeline Pankhurst and her husband had founded the Women's Franchise League. In 1903 she founded the Women's Social and Political Union + The Union became better known as the Suffragettes. Members of the Suffragettes were prepared to use violence to get what they wanted. What happened in 1905? In fact, the Suffragettes started off relatively peacefully. In 1905, they interrupted a political meeting (in Manchester) to ask two Liberal politicians. if they believed women should have the right to vote. Neither man replied. This means at that time that they didn't agree with them. How did the suffragettes protest? The Suffragettes refused to bow to violence... They burned down churches. They vandalised street, they chained themselves to Buckingham Palace. They attacked politicians while they were going to work. They refused to eat and went on a hunger strike. > The government was very concerned that they might die in prison > Prison governors were ordered to force feed Suffragettes but this caused a public outcry as forced feeding was traditionally used to feed lunatics as opposed to what were mostly educated women. What was the Cat and Mouse Act? It was a response from the government of Asquith. When a women of the suffragette decided to go on hunger strike in prion the government didn't use force feeding with the but just let the become weaker during hunger strike and they only released them when they were so weak so in this way if they died outside would not be an embarrassment for the government or if they lived the suffragette would not take part in violent suffragette struggles. What was their most famous act? What were the effects? As a result, the Suffragettes became more extreme. The most famous act associated with the Suffragettes was at the June 1913 Derby when Emily Wilding Davison threw herself under the King's horse, Anmer, as it rounded Tattenham Corner. She was killed and the Suffragettes had their first martyr. 10- When and why did their campaign of violence stop? Their campaign of violence stop when the World War One begin in August 1914 and they support in every way the government and its war effort (encourage by the patriotism of Emmeline Pankhurst that instructed the suffragette to give their support and stop their violence act) The work done by women in the First World War was to be vital for Britain's war effort. In 1918, the Representation of the People Act was passed by Parliament.
