Suffragette
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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.
Mannequin of Lilian Metge
Mary Ann Aldham
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Mary Ann Aldham was an English suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union who was imprisoned at least seven times. She went on hunger strike in prison where she was force-fed for
Mary Ann Aldham in a Home Office surveillance photograph (c. 1914)
Mary Ann Aldham signed the Suffragette Handkerchief, HM Prison Holloway 1912
Portrait of Henry James. This portrait of Henry James by John Singer Sargent was slashed by Aldham at the Royal Academy Exhibition in 1914
A newspaper cutting from 1914 concerning Aldham's attack at the Royal Academy