...Emmeline Pankhurst was an English women’s rights activist who founded the WSPU or the Women’s Social and Political Union in 1903. The main purpose of the WSPU was to advocate for women’s suffrage, which was women’s right to vote. They did this by badgering politicians, setting letters in mailboxes on fire, shattering windows, lacerating museum paintings, and even martyrdom. Emmeline Goulden was born in 1858 in England and she was the oldest daughter of ten children. Goulden’s parents were pro suffrage, and when she was fourteen, she went to her first women’s suffrage meeting. She met her husband, Dr. Richard Pankhurst, in 1878. He was a lawyer who supported many reformist causes, one being women’s suffrage. He was 24 years older than...
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...How far does sources C and D support what Emmeline Pankhurst is saying in Source B? The view of Pankhurst in Source B is that both women and men are needed, and are equally important in ensuring international peace. Source B says “We believe that under the joint rule of enfranchised women and men, the nations of the world will…find a way of reconciling the claims of peace and honour”. Source C also expresses a similar view, “You must remember that if the men fight, the women are the mothers. Without the mothers you have no nation to defend”. Both sources express the view that the war cannot be resolved without the help of women, as they have a key role to play for the nation, thus encouraging the government to allow women to take part in the war. On the outbreak of war women were not allowed to take part, Emmeline Pankhurst urges the government to reconsider the position and role of women by stressing the importance of women in regards to the nation. Therefore source C does support the views of Source B, both genders have joint importance. Source B also stresses the importance of women joining the war effort, “future task of women, only they can perform it”. Source D also shares this view as it calls for women to join the war effort, “Women must help to save it,” it does not intend to encourage men to join, it is specifically targeted at women. Both the sources express the importance of women showing patriotism, emphasising the importance of solely women. Source B believes...
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...but they weren’t paid the same. Women were paid less than men were. Women weren’t too happy about the fact the men were seen as better. So groups like the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies were formed, They were led by a women called Millicent Fawcett. The aim of the NUWSS was to get the vote for middle class women first of all, they would use more of a peaceful approach than other groups that were to form later on. They would hold peace rallies, but the leader Millicent Fawcett realised that they had to fight for the working class as well. If they were to get anywhere, simply because it was a lot more working class than middle class women. Some women got frustrated by the lack of progress of the NUWSS, so a woman called Emmeline Pankhurst broke...
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...What was the short term significance of Emmeline Pankhurst in bringing about the vote for women between 1903 and 1918? Emmeline Pankhurst was a highly controversial figure throughout the suffrage movement, through her radical, militant methods of protests, ensuring that the cause was not to be ignored. However, in many ways the shocking violence somewhat hindered a movement that had been established by Millicent Fawcett in a more peaceful, law abiding manner. Although women (over the age of thirty) were eventually given the right to vote when the Representation of the People Act was amended in 1918, Pankhurst’s contribution to this can be considered minimal. Although Pankhurst’s methods generated a huge amount of media attention, alternate factors such as women’s role during World War One can be seen as being of more relevance to women being enfranchised. As well as this, Fawcett's contribution to the movement encouraged the support of thousands, and therefore cannot be ignored. Emmeline Pankhurst can be seen as being a significant figure in bringing about the vote for women, due to the mass media attention her methods generated. In 1903, Pankhurst founded the National Women’s Social and Political Union. This was a response to the slow moving, gradualist approach from Fawcett, leader of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. British politicians, press and the public were astonished by the of window smashing, arson, hunger strikes and violence against the police....
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...these men look completely uninterested in her. From my own knowledge I know that the WSPU, or the Suffragettes, made a lot of militant achievements, as a result of militant methods they lost support of the government as the government didn't want to seem weak against the suffragettes and called them fanatics, hysterical and lunatics. Una Dugdale, in the source, was part of the suffragettes and worked closely with Emmeline Pankhurst. The fact that Una is in the middle of nowhere trying to speak to these men shows that militancy achieved nothing as people didn't want to listen to them. Source 1d disagrees with the view that militancy achieved nothing. The source states that women need to become more militant, "be militant". This shows that Emmeline pPankhurstppp urged women to stand up for their right to vote, and wanted women to do anything to get what they wanted. Though sometimes the militancy didn't work, the suffragettes did produce results as their violent behaviour sometimes was awarded. Their earlier methods increases interest. In source 1d, Emmeline Pankhurst talks about how suffragettes should "go and buy a hammer" as a militant action. This is supported by source 1e as the source states "bang went my hammer, and it was a great moment for me...". pThis clearly shows that women were using...
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...Emmeline Pankhurst British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst was a mother to five with three of her girls choosing to follow in her footsteps both politically and in the women’s organizations she founded. Without the leadership of Pankhurst, women’s suffrage in Britain may not have come until much later. How much of an impact did Pankhurst really make? She was born in 1858 and died in 1928, which was the same year women finally gained the right to vote in Britain. In 1903 her and her three daughters worked together to form the Women’s Social and Political Union. In 1917 Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel formed the Women’s Party. She spent the majority of her life fighting for equal rights for women, and all of her efforts lead to the political equality men and women in Britain have today. In 1914, Pankhurst published her autobiography, My Story, which was a “chronicle of women's militant struggle against political and social injustice in one small corner of Europe” (Pankhurst 11). This book tells her story, going into...
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...My Essay is about The Suffragettes Movement and its impact on the modern world today. Since 1800’s, when it was believed that women should not have the right to vote because of their soft and emotional nature and their incapability to make major decisions, women today have come a long way. ‘’Suffragettes was the name given to women who demanded the right to vote in elections.’’ The Suffragettes Movement was set up in 1897. This movement was set up because women wanted Parliament to address women’s issues and a Parliament full of men would never do this. Women teachers, doctors and those who worked in factories and mills had shown that they were capable of doing jobs that men could do and therefore felt that it was now time that they were recognised and treated as equals to men. Women had the right to vote! To achieve this equality, women started the Suffrage Movement which led to several events until the women were given the right to vote. The events that will highlight my essay will be: why did the Suffragette Movement start, how did the Suffragettes achieve their goals and what was the result of the Suffragette Movement. The above events will be supported by several sources. After years of struggle for change, women had achieved more rights socially and economically but there still remained many inequalities. Inequality in employment meant that men would get preference and higher...
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...Why had women not achieved the vote by 1914? Women worked hard to achieve the right to vote before 1914, using many different methods in order to persuade the parliament and general public that they deserved it. However, many different factors stopped women having the vote before 1914. The NUWSS was founded in 1987 by Millicent Fawcett and its goal was to organise the various women’s groups scattered across the country. They used a decentralised structure, which meant that they allowed the groups to govern themselves to a large degree. Each group became a representative of the NUWSS and unity was achieved where it would have otherwise been impossible; many women’s groups had conflicting opinions and would otherwise not have worked together. Despite this fair degree of cooperation, the NUWSS had no real authority over the separate women’s groups and no funds to promote women’s suffrage. They also had no way of dictating who would benefit from these funds. The fact that the NUWSS had no real authority over the individual societies meant that even though a sense of unity was provided, there was no real organisation over the separate groups. This meant the NUWSS would have had little effect over them apart from their seemingly united front. The scale of parliamentary support may also have been a factor which contributed to the fact women did not have the vote by 1914. Women’s societies had lobbied, petitioned and supported MP’s in order to raise the question of women’s suffrage...
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...History Essay Votes For Women In Britain during the late 19th and early 20th century women, especially the middle and lower classes were becoming more frustrated at the fact they were being refused the vote. Pressure groups like the Suffragists who were funded in 1897 to try and gain the vote for all women. In 1928 the introduction of the Representation of the People Act allowed women to finally equal as men in terms of the voting system. There were many reason to why women were given the vote, they include: the NUWSS, the WSPU, the Impact of WW1, Changing Society and Events in Other Counties. The suffragists did play a key role in female suffrage but many other factors must be considered to be equally important. The NUWSS, nicknamed the Suffragists, were formed in 1897 and led by Millicent Fawcett. The suffragists were mainly comprised of middle class and very few working class women; they had a member ship of just over 53,000. They used non-violent tactics such as marches, writing letters to the government, holding meeting and giving out free newspaper. These tactics had very little effect on the public as the government didn’t see them as a threat and they didn’t find women’s suffrage as an important issue, so they began to ignore them. Therefore women’s suffrage was gradually going down on the political agenda. The suffragists were realists as they recognised that only parliament could deliver the vote, so MP’s had to be persuaded. In this, they were successful...
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...Did women gain the vote because of their war work? |For |Against | | |The enfranchisement of women involved greater issues than could be involved in| |The role played by so many thousands of women during the war may have played a|any war, even supposing that the objects of the Great War were those alleged, | |part in obtaining the vote. But equally, it was a fear that women would |I cannot help regretting that any justification was given for the popular | |return to the pre-1914 campaign of militancy that prompted politicians to act |error which still sometimes ascribes the victory of the suffrage cause, in | |before the war was over. |1918, to women’s war service. The assumption is only true in so far as the | |(Angela K. Smith, 2005) |gratitude to women offered an excuse to the anti-suffragists in the Cabinet | | |and elsewhere to climb down with some dignity from a position that had become | | |untenable before the war. | ...
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...How important were the activities of the Women’s suffrage movement in the decision to grant women to vote. On February the 6th 1918 women over the age of 30 who were householders or married to a householder were granted the vote in Britain. This came after 60 years of suffrage campaigns. The women’s suffrage campaign was a powerful political force by 1914. There were 56 suffrage groups and two main bodies, whom of which were national - The suffragists (NUWSS) and The Suffragettes (WSPU). This essay will analyse how far the women’s suffrage movement was responsible for women being granted the vote by comparing it to other important factors such as the changing attitudes towards women in society, the part played by women in the war effort 1914-1918 and the changes in other countries. It can be argued that the activities of the suffrage movement in the decision to grant the vote for women was a big factor but their war work perhaps had just as big a part to play and the changes in other countries perhaps also just as big an influence. Therefore it can be argued the women’s suffrage movement was important in the decision to grant women the vote. It is undeniable that the activities of the women’s suffrage movement in the decision to grant them the vote was important as they were always being spoken about and they were known nationwide. The two different groups had two completely different approaches to their cause. The campaigning methods of the NUWSS were ‘peaceful’ tactics whereas...
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...Why had the vote not been won by 1914? Male attitude towards votes for women Male prejudice still existed despite the arguments put forward by women’s groups. A generally held view was that women in the later 19th century were considered to be second class citizens, physically, mentally and morally inferior to men and therefore incapable of voting. It was argued that women and men operated in different ‘spheres’ with their social roles being based on their differing abilities. While men were the protectors of family and the ‘breadwinners’ who had a role to play in government and professional life, woman by contrast, should focus on rearing the children and do ‘good deeds’ in charitable religious and educational work. As was said in a parliamentary debate in 1872, “we regard women as something to admire, to love . . . . she is the silver lining which lights the cloud of man’s existence.” Therefore, for many men there was no place for women in politics. Such attitudes of the majority MPs and working class men in British society delayed women’s suffrage as for it to occur they needed the support of the ‘dominant’ and powerful group in society i.e. Men. Female attitudes towards votes for women Very few women initially supported women’s fight for suffrage. In fact many women were strongly against giving women the vote or any form of education for women or rights. As Sarah Sewell, herself opposed to women’s suffrage said, “profoundly educated women rarely make good wives...
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...large manors and estates employed gardeners, workmen and labourers who could vote........but the women could not regardless of their wealth..... However, Fawcett's progress was very slow. She converted some of the members of the Labour Representation Committee (soon to be the Labour Party) but most men in Parliament believed that women simply would not understand how Parliament worked and therefore should not take part in the electoral process. This left many women angry and in 1903 the Women's Social and Political Union was founded by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia. They wanted women to have the right to vote and they were not prepared to wait. The Union became better known as the Suffragettes. Members of the Suffragettes were prepared to use violence to get what they wanted. In fact, the Suffragettes started off relatively peacefully. It was only in 1905 that the organisation created a stir when Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney interrupted a political...
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...Joshua Wu Equal in the Twentieth Century The late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century became the rising point of equality and social reform and protest. After many Nationalist movements of reform and revolts, this resulted in several unified countries. It then led to the next big social issue, equality. The female equality movement, especially the suffrage movement, gained traction throughout the world gaining massive support from many. Many female activists and authors were very vocal about the injustice they faced and how the societies they lived in needed to change. Some of these activists/authors were: Virginia Woolf, Alexandra Kollontai, Constance Markievicz, and Sylvia Pankhurst. Though in different forms and different pursuits these four authors pursued the same ultimate goal, equality. Virginia Woolf was an author during the turn of the century and in her piece, “A Room of One’s Own” she draws meaning from the injustice between the sexes in the time and in the industry of literature and art. In her piece, after referring to Shakespeare, she says, “A highly gifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people…No girl could have walked to London and stood at a stage door and forced her way into the presence of actor-managers without doing herself a violence and suffering an anguish…for chastity may be a fetish invented…” (298). Prior to this quote Woolf spoke about the history of Shakespeare and how...
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...13/10/14 Part A Practise Question How far do Sources F and G agree about the importance of mounting a militant campaign? In the late 19th century, the WSPU (suffragettes) adopted a militant campaign in place of their once harmless and peaceful campaign for enfranchising women. The objective of this essay is to explore the importance of mounting a militant campaign in order for women to gain the vote, by comparing source F and G in how much they agree and disagree in the importance of forming militant campaign. Firstly, source F, written by Ray Strachey, states that the militant ways Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney used during the events in Manchester meant that “hundreds” of people who had never thought about women’s suffrage before, “began to consider it”. This goes to show that the fact that these bold and never seen before methods led to sparked attention by the public and gained interest in what the WSPU were trying to achieve. Source G reinforces source F’s point, as it implies that militancy would be the only way to promote women’s suffrage by the audacious and jeopardous acts. It reads “non-militant methods had failed” demonstrating that people weren’t listening to their leaflets and posters and they needed a new way to try and get “suffrage up the agenda” again agreeing with source F as they knew these dangerous and ungoverned methods would receive the attention their cause needed to succeed. These extracts agree in the sense that militancy is important in...
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