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unusual facts about Suffragette


The Suffrajets

:Not to be confused with The Suffragettes.


1906 in Australia

4 January – Jessie Rooke, Tasmanian temperance campaigner and suffragette (born 1845)

All-women shortlists

Ann Widdecombe criticised the use of AWS stating that women in the past who fought for equality such as the Suffragettes "wanted equal opportunities not special privileges" and "they would have thrown themselves under the King's horse to protest against positive discrimination and all-women shortlists".

Billingsgate

Billingsgate is also referenced in the song "Sister Suffragette" in the 1964 version of Mary Poppins.

Bishop's Tawton

Famous residents include Clara Codd, the suffragette and theosophist, who was born in Pill House in October 1877 and who appears in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Ella Gudrun Ingeborg Holleufer

She was born in Aarhus in Denmark as the daughter of the baker August Holleufer, and her mother Dorthea Marie was one of the leading suffragettes in Denmark at the end of the 19th Century.

Ellen Jones

Ellen Isabel Jones (born Ellen Isabel Cotton: died c. 1948), English Suffragette and close associate of the Pankhursts

Elsie Bowerman

Elsie Edith Bowerman (18 December 1889 - 18 October 1973) was a British lawyer, suffragette and RMS Titanic survivor.

Hannah Conant

Hannah Maria Conant Tracy Cutler (1815–1896), American abolitionist and suffragette

Honley

Dora Thewlis (1880–1976), suffragette, was born in Honley.

Leeds Arts Club

The Leeds Arts Club, founded by Leeds school teacher Alfred Orage and Yorkshire textile manufacture Holbrook Jackson, was an iconoclastic organisation that mixed radical socialist and anarchist politics with the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, Suffragette Feminism, the spiritualism of the Theosophical Society and modernist art and poetry into a heady mixture.

Lillian Feickert

Lillian Ford Feickert (July 20, 1877 – January 21, 1945) was an American suffragette, New Jersey state political organizer, and the first woman from New Jersey to run for United States Senate.

Marie C. Brehm

Suffragette Marie Caroline Brehm (died January 21, 1926) was the first legally qualified female candidate to run for the vice-presidency of the United States, which she did in 1924 on the ticket of the Prohibition Party running with Herman P. Faris.

Mary Hughes

On her overseas trips she became closely acquainted with influential British women such as Margaret Lloyd George, Margot Asquith, Clementine Churchill and suffragette leader Christabel Pankhurst.

Maud Humphrey

Maud Humphrey (March 30, 1868 – 1940) was a suffragette, commercial illustrator and the mother of actor Humphrey Bogart.

Miss Lucy had a baby

The variants including a woman with an alligator purse urging the baby's mother to vote have been seen as a reference to Susan B. Anthony, an American suffragette.

Olive Wharry

Wharry made fellow Suffragette Constance Bryer (1870–1952) an executor of her 1946 will, in which she requested that her body be cremated and her ashes scattered on "the high open spaces of the Moor between Exeter and Whitstone".

Red Countess

Constance Markievicz (1868–1927), Irish politician, suffragette and socialist

Rona Robinson

Rona Robinson was a British suffragette and in 1905 the first woman in the United Kingdom to gain a first-class degree in chemistry.

Skipping-rope rhyme

It is also possible that "the lady with the alligator purse" in the lulu/lucy/Susie rhymes is a direct reference to U.S. suffragette Susan B. Anthony who was known for this trademark handbag.

Suffragette Sessions

In 1998, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls initiated the Suffragette Sessions Tour, a loose amalgamation of female artists that Ray described as "a socialist experiment in rock and roll--no hierarchy, no boundaries."

The Flying Girl

It is certainly true that Baum pokes gentle fun at the feminist and suffragette movement in his books — the most obvious example being General Jinjur and her Army of Revolt in The Marvelous Land of Oz.

Toffee hammer

Toffee hammers were used by suffragettes, in particular members of the Women's Social and Political Union, for breaking windows as a form of protest during their campaign for votes for women.

Viscountess Rhondda

Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda (1883–1958), Welsh suffragette and feminist, daughter of the above

Sybil Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda (1857–1941), Welsh suffragette, feminist and philanthropist


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