Suffragist Collection

Suffragette Hyde Park Demonstration 1908. Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst stands beside Mrs. Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918) Pioneer Suffragist then aged 75 yrs, in a Votes for Women sash

Ethel Snowden Suffragist. Ethel Snowden (1880-1951) portrait. Mrs. Philip Snowden, member of the N.U.W.S.S, married to Philip Snowden M.P

Suffragette to Prison
Go home and wash the kid ! is the advice kindly given to a suffragist as she is led to prison by two policemen

First female to speak in the House of Commons
Margaret Travers Symons (1879 - after 1951), suffragette, the first woman to speak in the House of Commons, who made her way in after running past policeman, Mr Idris into the chamber

Cartoon, Excelsior! (Suffragist as Sisyphus)
Cartoon, Excelsior! A Suffragette depicted as Sisyphus pushing the large boulder of Womens Suffrage up the Parliament Hill

Selection of suffragette banners 1908
Some of the 770 banners carried by suffragettes and suffragists as they marched from the embankment to the Royal Albert Hall

Police removing suffragettes chained to railings 1908
Police officers removing Edith New and Olivia Smith from the railings of 10. Downing Street. The image is interestingly captioned

Millicent Fawcett speaking at end of pilgrimage march, 1913
Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929), suffragist and early feminist, co-founder of Newnham College, Cambridge, and president of the moderate National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)

Katharine (Kate) Louisa Russell, Viscountess Amberley (nee Stanley, 1844-1874), British suffragist and early advocate of birth control

Underground passage to the House of Commons 1908
The underground passage from Westminster Station to the House of Commons, a section of which was privatised for MPs, usually used in bad weather but increasingly as a way of avoiding suffragettes

Women waiting to in St Stephens Hall, Feb 1908
Women waiting to be " fetched" in St Stephens Hall, guarded by policemen, as a result of concerns over the actions of the Suffragettes in the House of Commons

Processions of suffragists in London 1908
Women and men protesting womens right to vote in London, notably a procession leaving Parliament Square for Hyde Park. The image is titled " woman more militant than ever"

Mrs Dora Montefiore, suffragist, in court
Mrs Dora Montefiore (1851-1933), English-Australian womens suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer, seen here in court on 31 October 1913. 1913

Cicely Hamilton and Edith Craig, suffragettes
Cicely Hamilton (1872-1952) and Edith Craig (1869-1947). Edith was the daughter of the actress Ellen Terry, a theatre director, producer, costume designer and pioneer of the womens suffrage movement

Millicent Garrett Fawcett, suffragist leader
Millicent Garrett Fawcett (Mrs Henry Fawcett LLD, 1847-1929), British suffragist leader. Date: circa 1908

Millicent Fawcett
Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929), suffragist and early feminist, co-founder of Newnham College, Cambridge, and president of the moderate National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)

When Women Vote by Charles Dana Gibson
The Suffragettes as the creator of the Gibson Girls Sees Them. " When Women Vote: After dinner the girls will have to listen to politics"

Katharine (Kate) Louisa Russell, Viscountess Amberley (nee Stanley, 1844-1874), British suffragist and early advocate of birth control

Womens Suffrage Pilgrimage of July 1913 was a peaceful march in Ealing and Hyde Park, London, designed to show the British government the sheer number of women from across the country who demanded

Law-abiding Suffragists
A group of Suffragists standing next to a bicycle and a sign asserting that they are law-abiding. Date: c1909

Katharine Russell, Viscountess Amberley
Katharine (Kate) Louisa Russell, Viscountess Amberley (nee Stanley, 1844-1874), British suffragist and early advocate of birth control

Suffragette Card Game PANKO
Suffragette card game entitled Panko The Great Card Game Suffragists V Anti-Suffragists. The cards were illustrated by E.T Reed, a cartoonist for Punch Magazine

A Suffragist Orator. A suffragette on a soap box is heckled by a crowd of men in flat caps and bowler hats. Go home and mind the baby, The old man wants you home and Does mother know you re out

Millicent Garrett Fawcett, suffragist and early feminist, co-founder of Newnham College, Cambridge, and president of the moderate National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)

Eminent woman surgeon
Eminent Woman Surgeon, who is also an ardent Suffragist (to wounded Guardsman): " Do you know, your face is singularly familiar to me

Bertrand Russell, philosopher and author
Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher and author. Outline of his policies in an election leaflet as suffragist candidate in the Wimbledon By-Election, 1907. Date: 1907

Beatrice Forbes-Robertson (1883 - 1967), English actress, lecturer, writer, and suffragist

Portraits of campaigners for womens rights
Portraits of various campaigners for womens rights, who led a Suffragist Procession on 13 June 1908 from the Embankment to the Albert Hall: Charlotte Despard (Leader of the Womens Freedom League)

Suffragist Frances Sterling. Frances Mary Sterling (1869-1943), member of the london Society for Womens Suffrage, joint Hon. Sec. of the N.U.W.S.S until 1911

Suffragist Lasy McLaren. Lady Laura McLaren (1854-1933) was active in the woman suffrage campaign for many years, member of the Womens Liberal Federation

Anti-Suffragist Demonstration 1912. The historic Great Demonstration Against Woman Suffrage, organised by the National League For Opposing Woman Suffrage, Royal Albert Hall, February 28th, 1912

Lillah McCarthy Suffragist. Miss Lillah McCarthy (1875-1970) portrait. Lillah McCarthy, actress and suffrage supporter. Played Justice in the first performance of Cicely Hamiltons Pageant of Great

Lady Frances Balfour Suffragist. Lady Frances Balfour (1858-1931) portrait. Aristocratic and dedicated worker for the cause of Womens Suffrage

Emmeline Pankhurst Imprisoned Leaders. Emmeline Pankhurst, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, described as the Imprisoned Suffragist leaders May 22nd 1912

Suffragette The Anti-Suffragist. A view of the male Anti-Suffragist, the type who declares, Don t give votes to women, they have no BRAINS. Date: circa 1909

Suffragette Go Hang Yourselves. Two women view a campaigner for the franchise as So Un-Ladylike!! The suffragist with banners reading No taxation Without Representation and 190

Suffragette Male Suffragist Bravo. A man carrying a large votes for women petition is praised for his support for the cause. Entitled, Male Suffragist

The Anti-Suffragist. Depicts a butterfly refusing to emerge from its chrysalis. Verse by C.P. Stetson, (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) Illustrated by Ernestine Mills. Date: circa 1908

Suffragette, Suffragist Muzzle. Addressed to Suffragist who wears a skirt and jacket embroidered with broad prison arrows and a muzzle round her mouth

Muriel Matters
The suffragist, Muriel Matters. She was a speaker & organiser for the WFL and most notably chained herself to " that ville grill" behind which women sat in the Commons Date: 1908

Clementina Black
Clementina Maria Black (1853-1922), the political activist, suffragist and writer. In 1886 she became honorary secretary of the Womens Trade Union League

Mr Churchill rung down by a Suffragettes bell
A photograph of Winston Churchill addressing a meeting of workmen at a factory. Ms Molony, an Irish Suffragist, arrived in a carriage and attempted to drown the speakers voice with a bell

Womens Rights / March
THE GREAT SUFFRAGIST PROCESSION - led by Lady Frances Balfour; Mrs Fawcett; Emily Davies; Dr Bryant; and 9, 996 others, from the Embankment to the Albert Hall

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