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This is a list of suffragists and suffragettes who were campaigners for women's suffrage
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This is a list of suffragists and suffragettes who were campaigners for women's suffrage
Women's suffrage
The term women's suffrage refers to the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage ? the right to vote ? to women. The movement's modern origins lie in France in the 18th century.... . Suffragists and suffragette
Suffragette
File:British suffragette.jpgSuffragette is a term originally coined by the Daily Mail newspaper as a derogatory label for the more Political radicalism and militant members of the late-19th and early-20th century movement for women's suffrage Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, in particular members of the Women's Social and Politica... s were often members of different societies which had the same aim, but used differing tactics: for example, suffragettes in the British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe.... usage denotes a more 'militant
Militant
The word militant refers to any individual or party engaged in aggressive physical or verbal combat, usually for a cause.Journalists often use militant as a neutral term for soldiers who do not belong to an established government military organization.... ' type of campaigner.
Susan Brownell Anthony was a prominent United States civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce History of women's suffrage in the United States....
Annie Arniel was a suffragist and women's rights advocate. Born on Howe Island, Ontario, Canada, Annie played a key role in helping to win the women's vote in the United States....
Lucy Burns was an United States suffrage and Woman's rights advocate. She was a close friend of Alice Paul. Together, they formed the National Woman's Party....
Carrie Chapman Catt was a woman's suffrage leader. She was elected president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association twice; her first term was from 1900 to 1904 and her second term was from 1915 to 1920....
Frederick Douglass was an American Abolitionism, History of women's suffrage in the United States, editing, orator, author, statesman and Reform movement....
Abigail Scott Duniway was an American women's rights advocate, newspaper editor and writer, whose efforts were instrumental in gaining voting rights for women....
Max Forrester Eastman was an United States writer on literature, politics and society; supporter of progressive causes, and patron of the Harlem Renaissance....
Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage was a women's suffrage, a Native Americans in the United States activist, an Abolitionism, a Free thought, and a prolific author, who was "born with a hatred of oppression"....
Florence Jaffray "Daisy" Harriman was an United States of America socialite, suffragist, social reformer, organizer, and later, a courageous diplomat....
Ada Lois James was a suffragist, social worker, and reformer. Born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, she graduated from high school in 1894, taught school for several years, and soon became active in the woman's suffrage movement in which both her parents were playing prominent roles....
Inez Milholland Boissevain was a suffragist, labor lawyer, World War I correspondent, and public speaker who greatly influenced the women's movement in America....
Lucretia Coffin Mott was an United States Religious Society of Friends, abolitionist, social reformer and proponent of women's rights. She is credited as the first American "feminist" in the early 1800s but was, more accurately, the initiator of women's political advocacy....
Alice Stokes Paul was an United States suffragette leader. Along with Lucy Burns and others, she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920....
Margaret Higgins Sanger was an United States birth control activist, an advocate of eugenics#Meanings and types of eugenics, and the founder of the American Birth Control League ....
Julia Sears was a pioneering academic and suffragette. She achieved a milestone early in her career when in 1872 she became the first woman in the U.S....
Anna Howard Shaw was a leader of the History of women's suffrage in the United States. She was also a physician and the first ordained female Methodism minister in the United States....
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social activism and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the Seneca Falls Convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls , New York, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in th...
Doris Stevens was an United States Women's suffrage and author of Jailed for Freedom.Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Doris Stevens graduated from Oberlin College in 1911....
Lucy Stone was a prominent United States suffragist. Stone was the first recorded American woman to keep her own last name upon marriage and the first woman in Massachusetts to receive a college degree....
Sojourner Truth was the self-given name, from 1843, of Isabella Baumfree, an American slave, Abolitionism and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, New York....
Ida B Wells was an African American sociologist, civil rights leader and a women's rights leader active in the History of women's suffrage in the United States|Woman Suffrage Movement....
Victoria Claflin Woodhull was an United States Suffragette who was described by Gilded Age newspapers as a leader of the American woman's suffrage movement in the 19th century....
Edith Dircksey Cowan , Member of the Order of the British Empire was an Australian politician, social campaigner and the first woman elected as a representative in an Australian parliament....
Louisa Lawson was an Australian writer, publisher, Suffragette, and feminist.Louisa Lawson was born and raised in Mudgee, New South Wales. The second of 12 children, her family were typical strugglers, and like many girls at that time left school at the age of thirteen....
Mary Lee was an Ireland-Australian suffragist and social reformer in South Australia.Mary Walsh was born in Ireland. She was married in 1844 to George Lee....
Rose Scott was an Australia women's rights activist who protested for women's suffrage and universal suffrage in New South Wales at the turn-of-the twentieth century ....
Catherine Helen Spence was an Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician and leading suffragette. In 1897 she became Australia's first female political candidate after standing for the Federal Convention held in Adelaide....
Born in Chota Nagpur Division, Bihar, India, Jessie Mary Grey Street was an Australian suffragette, feminist and human rights campaigner.She was a key figure in Australian political life for over 50 years, from the women's suffrage struggle in England to the removal of Australia's constitutional discrimination against Australian Aborigin...
Marianne Hainisch was the founder and leader of the Austrian women's movement. She was also the mother of Michael Hainisch, the first President of Austria ....
Marie Popelin was a Belgium feminist, educator, and advocate.Born in Schaerbeek into a middle-class family—one of her brothers was a doctor, another an army officer—Marie Popelin was well educated by the standards of the time and place....
Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, Doctor of Medicine , was an England physician and feminism, the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain....
Dr. Louisa Garrett Anderson Order of the British Empire was a medical pioneer, a member of the Women's Social and Political Union, a suffragette, and social reformer....
Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, Companion of Honour, was the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons ....
Dorothea Beale was an English people teacher.Born in Bishopsgate, England, she was the founder of St Hilda's College, Oxford. Her name is associated with that of Frances Buss in a satirical rhyme:...
Lydia Ernestine Becker was a leader in the early United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland suffrage movement, as well as an amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy....
Dr. Ethel Bentham was a progressive doctor, a politician and a suffragette in the United Kingdom. She was born in Ireland, educated at Alexandra School and College in Dublin, the London School of Medicine for Women and the Rotunda Hospital....
Teresa Billington-Greig was a suffragette who created the Women's Freedom League. She left another suffrage organisation the WSPU as she considered the leadership too autocratic....
Rt. Hon. Margaret Grace Bondfield was an English Labour Party politician and feminist, the first woman Cabinet minister in the United Kingdom and one of the first three female Labour MPs....
Catherine Booth was the Mother of The Salvation Army.She was born Catherine Mumford in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England, the daughter of John Mumford and Sarah Milward....
Elsie Edith Bowerman was a lawyer, suffragette and RMS Titanic survivor.Bowerman was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, the daughter of William Bowerman and his wife Edith Martha Barber....
Vera Mary Brittain was an England writer, feminist and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her experiences during World War I and the growth of her ideology of Christian pacifism....
Frances Mary Buss was a headmistress and an England pioneer of women's education.The daughter of Robert William Buss, a painter and etcher, and his wife, Frances Fleetwood, Buss was one of six of their ten children to survive into adulthood....
Josephine Elizabeth Butler was a Victorian era English feminism and grandmother of Judith Rowbotham, who was especially concerned with the welfare of prostitutes....
Anne Jemima Clough was an early England suffragist and a promoter of higher education for women.Clough was born at Liverpool, the daughter of a cotton merchant....
Leonora Cohen OBE was a United Kingdom suffragette.She was known for smashing the case of the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London. She survived a hunger strike in Armley Jail in Leeds....
Dame Margaret Isabel Cole, Order of the British Empire was an England socialism politician.Daughter of John Percival Postgate and Edith Allen, Margaret was educated at Roedean School and Girton College, Cambridge....
Selina Cooper was an England Suffragist and the first woman to represent the Independent Labour Party in 1901 when she was elected as a Poor Law Guardian....
Mary Crudelius was a British campaigner for women's education who lived in Leith, Edinburgh in the 1860s and 1870s, and was a supporter of women's suffrage....
Sarah Emily Davies was an English people feminist, suffragist and a pioneering campaigner for women's rights to university access. She was born in Southampton, England to an evangelicalism clergyman and a teacher in 1830, although she spent most of her youth in Gateshead....
Emily Wilding Davison was an activist for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. She died when she was struck by George V of the United Kingdom's horse Anmer at the Epsom Derby....
Flora McKinnon Drummond aka The General was a British people Suffragist who was born in Manchester but raised on the Isle of Arran. Nicknamed The General for her habit of leading Women's Rights marches wearing a military style uniform 'with an officers cap and epaulettes' and riding on a large horse, Drummond was an organiser for...
Dame Millicent Fawcett Order of the British Empire LLD was an England suffragist and an early feminist.She was born Millicent Garrett in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England....
Elizabeth Fry was an England prison reformer, social reformer and, as a Religious Society of Friends, a Christian philanthropist.Fry was a major driving force behind new legislation to make the treatment of prisoners more humane, and she was supported in her efforts by the reigning monarch....
Nellie Hall was a British people Suffragist and god-daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst after whom she was named.Nellie began her political activism in 1909 at the age of fourteen when she joined the nightly protests against force-feeding outside Birmingham ....
Cicely Mary Hamilton , born Hammill, was an English actress, writer, journalist, suffragist and feminist. She is now best known for the play Diana of Dobson's, with a setting in an Edwardian department store....
Jane Ellen Harrison was a ground-breaking United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland classics scholar, linguistics and feminist. Harrison is one of the founders, with Karl Kerenyi and Walter Burkert, of modern studies in Greek mythology....
Emily Hobhouse was a Great Britain welfare campaigner, who is primarily remembered for bringing to the attention of the British public, and working to change, the appalling conditions inside the British concentration camps in South Africa built for Boer women and children during the Second Boer War....
Winifred Holtby was an England novelist and journalist.Born to a prosperous farming family in the village of Rudston, Yorkshire. Holtby was educated at home by a governess and then at Queen Margaret's School, York in Scarborough, North Yorkshire....
Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake was an England physician, teacher and feminism. She was one of the first female doctors in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, a leading campaigner for medical education for women and was involved in founding two medical schools for women, in London and in Edinburgh, where she also started a women's hos...
Dame Grace Kimmins, Order of the British Empire was described in Punch as '... in her quiet practical way is probably as good a friend as London ever had', a remarkable description for the driving force behind the Guild of Play and the Guild of the Poor Brave Things....
Annie Knight was, at age 111, believed to be the United Kingdom's oldest person following the death of fellow 111-year-old Emmeline Brice on 26 July 2006....
Lady Constance Georgina Bulwer-Lytton was an influential English suffragette activist, writer, speaker and campaigner for prison reform, votes for women, and birth control....
Margaret Haig Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda was a Wales peerage and active suffragette.Born Margaret Haig Thomas, she was the only daughter of David Alfred Thomas and his wife Sybil Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda....
Dame Sarah Elizabeth Siddons Mair, Order of the British Empire was a Scotland campaigner for women's education and women's suffrage, active in the Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women and the Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society, which she founded before she was 20....
Harriet Martineau was an England writer and philosopher, renowned in her day as a controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist....
Eleanor "Tussy" Marx was a Marxist author, political activist, and Translation#Literary Translation. She was the youngest daughter of the founder of Marxism, Karl Marx....
Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell was an England writer, editing, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.She was born in Barnes, London, London, to Thomas James and Christiana Thompson....
John Stuart Mill , United Kingdom philosopher, political economy, civil servant and Parliament of the United Kingdom, was an influential liberalism thinker of the 19th century.... and Harriet Taylor Mill
Harriet Taylor Mill
Harriet Taylor Mill was a philosopher and women's rights advocate. Her extant corpus of writing is very small, and she is largely remembered for her influence, which he said was very great, on her second husband, John Stuart Mill, one of the pre-eminent thinkers of the 19th century....
Dr. Flora Murray, M.D. was a medical pioneer and a member of the Women's Social and Political Union suffragettes.Murray trained at the London School of Medicine for Women and finished her course at University of Durham....
Mary Neal Order of the British Empire , born Clara Sophia Neal, was an England social worker and collector of English folk dances.She was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham to a prosperous family, but in 1888 began voluntary social work among the poor of Soho and Marylebone in London, adopting the name "Mary"....
Florence Nightingale, Order of Merit , Royal Red Cross , who came to be known as "The Lady with the Lamp", was a pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician....
Ada Nield Chew was a United Kingdom suffragette.Ada Nield was born on a farm near Butt Lane in North Staffordshire in January 28, 1870, daughter of Willam and Jane Nield and left school at the age of eleven to help her mother take care of house and family....
Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst, Order of the British Empire was a suffragette born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union , she directed its militant actions from exile in France from 1912 to 1913....
Emmeline Pankhurst was a political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement. Although she was widely criticised for her militant tactics, her work is recognised as a crucial element in achieving women's suffrage in Britain....
Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst was a notable campaigner for the suffragette movement in the United Kingdom. She was for a time a prominent Left Communism who then devoted herself to the cause of anti-fascism, and for peace....
Adela Constantia Mary Pankhurst Walsh was a British-Australian suffragette, political organizer, and co-founder of both the Communist Party of Australia and the Australia First Movement....
Edith Pechey-Phipson was one of the first women doctors in the United Kingdom and a campaigner for women's rights. She spent more than 20 years in India as a senior doctor at a women's hospital and was involved in a range of social causes....
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence was a United Kingdomwomen's rights activist.Her father was a businessman. She was the second of 13 children, and was sent away to boarding school at the age of eight....
Eleanor Florence Rathbone was an Independent United Kingdom Parliament of the United Kingdom and long-term campaigner for women's rights. She was a member of the noted Rathbone family of Liverpool....
Mary Reid aka Mary Reid MacArthur was a Scottish people Suffragist and Trade Union. She was born in Glasgow and became politicised when she joined the shop assistant's union whilst working in her father's drapers shop....
Rona Robinson was a British people suffragette and in 1905 the first woman in the United Kingdom to gain a British undergraduate degree classification in chemistry....
[Agnes] Maude Royden, Order of the Companions of Honour was a preacher and suffragist.Always known as Maude Royden, she was born at Mossley Hill, Liverpool, the daughter of Sir Thomas Bland Royden, 1st Baronet, of Frankby Hall, Birkenhead....
Ethel Snowden, Viscountess Snowden, born Ethel Annakin , was a United Kingdom socialist and feminist politician.Ethel Snowden was a Christian Socialist and Labour Party politician and is most well known as a leading campaigner for women's suffrage....
Flora Clift Stevenson was a Scotland social reformer with a special interest in education for poor or neglected children, and in education for girls....
Helena Lucy Maria Swanwick Order of the Companions of Honour was a United Kingdom feminist and pacifist.As a schoolgirl, she read On the Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill, which influenced her to become a feminist....
Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler was a United Kingdom Painting, one of the few female painters to achieve fame for history paintings, especially military battle scenes, at the end of that tradition....
Harriet Shaw Weaver was a Activism and a journal Editing. She also became the patronage of James Joyce.Harriet Shaw Weaver was born in Frodsham, Cheshire, the daughter of Frederic Poynton Weaver, a Physician, and Mary Wright, who had inherited a fortune from her father....
Martha Beatrice Webb was an English sociologist, economist, socialism and reformer, usually referred to in the same breath as her husband, Sidney Webb....
Cicely Isabel Fairfield , known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, Order of the British Empire was an England author, journalist, literary criticism and travel writer....
Anna Doyle Wheeler was born in 1785, the daughter of a prebendary from Fennor Parish. She was married at 15 to Francis Massey Wheeler but separated from him 12 years later by moving to Guernsey....
Ellen Cicely Wilkinson was the Labour Party Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough and later for Jarrow on Tyneside. She was one of the first female MPs in Britain....
Nellie McClung, born Nellie Letitia Mooney was a Canada feminism, politician, and social activist. She was a part of the social and moral reform movements prevalent in Western Canada in the early 1900s.... and the rest of the Famous Five
Dr. Emily Howard Stowe was the first female Physician to practise in Canada, and an activist for women's rights and suffrage. Emily Stowe was born in Norwich Township, Oxford County, Ontario....
Hubertine Auclert, , was a leading France feminist and a campaigner for women's suffrage.Born in the Allier d?partement in the Auvergne area of France into a middle-class family, Hubertine Auclert's father died when she was thirteen years old and her mother sent her to live and study in a Roman Catholic convent....
Maria Deraismes was a France author and major pioneering force for women's rights.Born in Paris, France, Maria Deraismes grew up in Pontoise in the city's northwest outskirts....
Jeanne Deroin was a France socialist feminist.Born in Paris, Deroin became a seamstress. In 1831, she joined the followers of utopian socialist Henri de Saint-Simon....
Madeleine Pelletier was a France physician, psychiatrist, first-wave feminist feminist, and socialist activist.Pelletier originally trained as an anthropologist studying the relationship between Neuroscience and intelligence and intelligence after Paul Broca with Charles Letourneau and L?once Manouvrier....
Pauline Roland was a France feminist and socialist.Upon her mother's insistence, Roland received a good education and was introduced to the ideas of Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, the founder of French socialism, by one of her teachers....
Severine or S?verine can refer to:* the nom de plume of the French journalist Caroline R?my de Guebhard* a pseudonym of the Hungarian model Eve Angel...
Flora Tristan was a socialist writer and activist. She was also one of the founders of modern feminism and, through Alina Mar?a Chazal, Paul Gauguin's grandmother....
Marianne Adelaide Hedwig Dohm born Schlesinger, later Schleh was a Germany actress, feminist, author.She was born in Berlin to Jewish parents, as a daughter of Wilhelmine J?lich, nee Beru and daughter of a tobacco-maker Gustav Adolph Schleh ....
Clara Zetkin, maiden name Eissner was an influential Socialism Germany politician and a fighter for women's rights.Until 1917 she was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany, then she joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany and its far-left wing, the Spartacist League; this later became the Communist Pa...
Anna Maria Mozzoni was an Italy feminist and a key figure in the Italian Women's suffrage movement and is known as the founder of the Women's movement in Italy....
Aletta Henri?tte Jacobs, better known as Aletta Jacobs was the first woman to complete a university course in the Netherlands and the first female physician....
Louie Bennett was an Irish people suffragette, Trades Unionist and Journalism and writer born in Ireland. In 1927 she was the first woman to be elected President of the Irish Trades Union Congress and in the same year was elected to the executive committee of the Labour Party ....
Norah Elam also known as Norah Dacre Fox, was a militant Suffrage, Vivisection and Fascism in the United Kingdom. Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1878 to John and Charlotte Doherty, she emigrated to England with her family and by 1891 was living in London.... aka Norah Dacre Fox
Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth was an Irish poet and dramatist, and a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist. She was born at Lissadell House, County Sligo, the younger sister of Constance Markiewicz, later known as the Countess Markiewicz....
Kathleen Florence Lynn was an Ireland Sinn F?in politician and medical doctor. She was born to a Dublin Presbyterianism family and educated at the Royal University of Ireland....
Johanna Mary Sheehy-Skeffington, was a suffragette and Irish nationalist. Along with her husband and Margaret Cousins and James Cousins she founded the Irish Women's Franchise League in 1908 with the aim of obtaining women's voting rights....
Ellen Karolina Sofia Key was a Sweden feminist writer on many subjects in the fields of family life, ethics and education.Born at Sundsholm mansion, Sweden , she was an early advocate of a child-centered approach, and a suffragist....
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