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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
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.
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Emily Davison
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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
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…which the government responded by force-feeding them. The first suffragette to be force fed was Evaline Hilda Burkitt. The death of one suffragette, Emily Wilding Davison, made headlines around the world when she ran in front of King George V's horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby along with 17 other women. The WSPU campaign…
Emily Davison wearing her Holloway brooch and hunger strike medal, c. 1910–1912
Davison in 1908
A suffragette being force-fed in Holloway prison, c. 1911
Davison in 1912 or 1913