Seven women dressed in suffragette costumes stood a "silent vigil" for women's rights during the day at the Federal Building.
After a rowdy demonstration outside Parliament, he espied a suffragette and shouted, "Drive that woman away!" although he knew very well who she was; she had been his dinner .
English suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Franchise League in 1889 and the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903 with her daughter Christabel Harriette.
The past 100 years, Oct. 19, 2013 Oct. 19, 1913: NEW YORK — Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the English suffragette leader, who arrived here today for a lecture tour, was ordered deported by the immigration authorities within less than 3 hours after the vessel on which she came had docked.
Oct. 19, 2013 - Santa Fe New Mexican
‘Downton’ fans should eat up ‘The Winslow Boy’ A legal drama drives the story but Rattigan also throws in a subplot about a love that dare not express itself between feisty suffragette Catherine Winslow and arrogant barrister Sir...
Oct. 18, 2013 - New York Post
Emily Watson in Malaysia Star Had Millie been born a decade later (than 1860), she would have been a suffragette,Watson said. "She was very outspoken, which is one of the reasons I wanted to play her. I don't often get the chance to play mouthy women."
Ian Hamilton in Glasgow Sunday Mail Ian said: "When it came out from under the chair, it fell on to the floor with a big bump and broke. They say it had been damaged previously by a suffragette bomb. I would like to say that my heart sunk when we broke the stone but it actually made...
George M Cohan in Gilroy Dispatch (subscription) George M. Cohan wrote "Over There" to support the troops during World War I. In 1919, CW Custer's song "Wifey is a Real Suffragette" championed women's votes.