suffragette
suffragette a woman seeking the right to vote through organized protest; the term is recorded from 1906, in an account in the Daily Mail of 10 January of a meeting between ‘Mr Balfour and the Suffragettes’.
The suffragettes were more formally members of the Women's Suffrage Movement, an organization which initiated a campaign of demonstrations and militant action, under the leadership of the Pankhursts, after the repeated defeat of women's suffrage bills in Parliament.
The suffragettes were more formally members of the Women's Suffrage Movement, an organization which initiated a campaign of demonstrations and militant action, under the leadership of the Pankhursts, after the repeated defeat of women's suffrage bills in Parliament.
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