Emily Wilding Davison was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union and a militant fighter for
Emily Davison wearing her Holloway brooch and hunger strike medal, c. 1910–1912
A suffragette being force-fed in Holloway prison, c. 1911
A suffragette was a member or supporter of the British Women's Social and Political Union, an activist women's group agitating for votes for women, which in the early 20th century broke away from the
Emily Davison
…Emily Wilding Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a militant…
Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst of the WSPU in 1906
De La Rue playing cards back from 1910
Emmeline Pankhurst founded the WSPU in 1903 and became the most prominent of Britain's suffragettes.
Mannequin of Lilian Metge