A • in 1914
Alice Abadam (1856–1940) – Welsh suffragist and Catholic campaigner, member of the
Catholic Women's Suffrage Society •
Wilhelmina Hay Abbott (1884–1957) – Scottish suffragist, editor and feminist lecturer, officer of the
International Woman Suffrage Alliance •
Eleanor Acland (1878–1933) – British
Liberal Party politician, suffragist, and novelist, member of the Liberal Women’s Suffrage Union and president of the
Women's Liberal Federation • c. 1910
Violet Aitken (1886–1987) – British suffragette activist in the
Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), imprisoned and force-fed, editor of
The Suffragette •
Laura Ainsworth (1885–1958) – British teacher and suffragette •
Leonora de Alberti (1870–1934) – English historian and suffragist, member of the Catholic Women’s Suffrage Society and editor of its journal
The Catholic Suffragist •
Margaret Aldersley (1852–1940) – British textile worker, suffragist, feminist and trade unionist, member of the
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) •
Janie Allan (1868–1968) – Scottish suffragette activist and significant financial supporter of the WSPU; imprisoned for suffrage activities •
Doreen Allen (1879–1963) – English suffragette, member of the WSPU •
Mary Sophia Allen (1878–1964) – British women's rights activist, suffragette, and policewoman, member of the WSPU, was imprisoned and went on hunger strike, later involved in far-right political activity •
Katharine Russell, Viscountess Amberley (1844–1874) – British suffragist and early advocate of
birth control, president of the Bristol and West of England Women's Suffrage Society • , with images including
Gertrude Ansell,
Olive Hockin,
Evelyn Manesta,
Margaret Scott, and others
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917) – English physician, feminist, first dean of a British medical school, first female mayor, and
magistrate in Britain, member of the committee of the NUWSS •
Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873–1943) – British physician and suffragist, Chief Surgeon of Women's Hospital Corps, Fellow of the
Royal Society of Medicine, jailed for her suffragist activities; niece of
Millicent Fawcett •
Gertrude Ansell (1861–1932) – English suffragette, animal welfare activist, typist and businesswoman • ,
Manchester in 1909; suffragists include
Margaret Ashton and
Helena SwanwickRhoda Anstey (1865–1936) – English teacher, member of the WFL and one of the earliest members of the
Gymnastic Teachers' Suffrage Society •
Helen Archdale (1876–1949) – Scottish suffragette and journalist, organiser for the WSPU in
Sheffield •
Ethel Arnold (1865–1930) – English journalist and suffrage lecturer •
Catherine Arnott (1858–1942) – British medical doctor and member of the Coventry branch of the WSPU •
Jane Arthur (1827–1907) – Scottish philanthropist, educationalist, feminist and activist; campaigned for women's suffrage •
Margaret Ashton (1856–1937) – Scottish suffragist, local politician, pacifist •
Anne Ashworth (1842–1921) – British suffragist and a founder member of the
National Society for Women's Suffrage,
Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage, and
Manchester Society for Women's Suffrage •
Mary Atkinson – English suffragette in the
Lancashire textile industry, member of the Nelson & Clitheroe Suffrage Society •
Barbara Ayrton-Gould (1886–1950) – Labour politician and co-founder of the
United Suffragists; jailed for her suffrage activities •
Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923) – English engineer, mathematician, inventor and suffragette, member of the WSPU
B • in prison, taken by the Criminal Record Office in 1914
Bertha Bacon (1866–1922) – English suffragette, arrested and imprisoned for smashing three windows of the dining room at the
Westminster Palace Hotel •
Mary Anne Baikie (1861–1950) – Scottish suffragist who established the
Orcadian Women's Suffrage Society •
Sarah Jane Baines (1866–1951) – British-Australian feminist and social reformer; member of the WSPU, jailed at least fifteen times,
Christabel Pankhurst and
Edith New in 1906 •
Minnie Baldock ( – 1954) – English suffragette, co-founded the first London branch of the WSPU in
Canning Town, one of the first suffragettes to be arrested after trying to present a petition to the House of Commons •
Elizabeth Balfour, Countess of Balfour (1867–1942) – English aristocrat, politician and suffragette •
Lady Frances Balfour (1858–1931) – British aristocrat, author, and suffragist, president of the NUWSS, opposed the militancy of the WSPU •
Florence Balgarnie (1856–1928) – English suffragette, speaker, pacifist, feminist,
temperance activist •
Norah Balls (1886–1980) – British suffragette, women’s right campaigner, magistrate and councillor, co-founder of the
Girl Guides movement in
Northumberland •
Anna, Lady Barlow (1873–1965) – English Liberal Party politician, pacifist, suffragist and temperance activist •
Catherine Isabella Barmby – English socialist and feminist writer, her 1843 tract
The Demand for the Emancipation of Women, Politically and Socially was an early work arguing the case for women's enfranchisement •
Rachel Barrett (1874–1953) – Welsh suffragette and newspaper editor, member of the WSPU, imprisoned and force fed, editor of the
Votes for Women newspaper •
Janet Barrowman (1879–1955) – Scottish suffragette and member of the WSPU, jailed for her suffragist activities •
Lydia Becker (1827–1890) – English amateur scientist and leader in the early British suffrage movement, secretary of the
Manchester Society for Women's Suffrage •
Dorothea Beale (1831–1906) – English educational reformer, author and suffragist, Principal of the
Cheltenham Ladies' College and vice-president of the
Kensington Society •
Harriette Beanland (born 1866) – British textile worker and suffragette, secretary to the
Women's Labour League in
Lancashire, signed the manifesto of the Independent Labour Party in favour of women's suffrage in 1906 •
Lydia Becker (1827–1890) – British
biologist,
astronomer and suffragist, founder and publisher of the ''
Women's Suffrage Journal'' •
Edith Marian Begbie (1866–1932) – Scottish militant suffragette who was force-fed, member of the WSPU •
Elizabeth Gould Bell (1862–1934) – Northern Irish suffragette, member of the WSPU and the
Irish Women's Suffrage Society, and the first woman to practice medicine in
Ulster •
Mary Bell (1885–1943) – first Scottish women
magistrate, member of the
Women's Freedom League (WFL) • (AFL) at the
Women's Coronation Procession in 1911
Sarah Benett (1850–1924) – Scottish suffragette and tax resister, member of the WSPU and treasurer of the WFL •
Ethel Bentham (1861–1931) – British doctor, Labour politician, member of the NUWSS •
Inez Bensusan (1871–1967) – Australian born Jewish actress, playwright and suffragette in the UK, leader of the
Actresses' Franchise League (AFL) and the
Jewish League for Woman Suffrage demonstrating in her wheelchair •
Rosa May Billinghurst (1875–1953) – British suffragette, member of the WSPU and founder of the
Greenwich branch; jailed multiple times, decorated her wheelchair in WSPU colours •
Catherine Hogg Blair (1872–1946) – Scottish suffragette, founder of the
Scottish Women's Rural Institute (SWRI) and member of the WSPU •
Clementina Black (1853–1922) – English writer, suffragist and trade unionist, member of the WSPU and acting editor of
The Common Cause newspaper •
Violet Bland (1863–1940) – member of the WSPU, force-fed in prison • in 1909
Emily Blathwayt (1852–1940) – English suffragist who lived at
Eagle House, which became known as the "Suffragette's Rest" •
Mary Blathwayt (1879–1961) – English suffragist who lived at Eagle House, member of the WSPU, daughter of Emily Blathwayt •
Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891) – early English educationalist, artist, feminist, activist for women's rights, belonged to the
Langham Place Circle •
Lillie Boileau (1869–1930) – English political activist and early member of the WFL and the
Union of Ethical Societies •
Margaret Bondfield (1873–1953) – British feminist and politician, chair of the
Adult Suffrage Society, member of the WFL, member of the
National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (later the NUWSS) and first woman Cabinet minister in the United Kingdom •
Adeline Bourne (1873–1965) – Anglo-Indian actress, suffragette and charity worker; co-founder or the AFL •
Elsie Bowerman (1889–1973) – British lawyer and suffragette, member of the WSPU, RMS
Titanic survivor •
Janet Boyd (1850–1928) – English suffragette and hunger-striker •
Georgina Brackenbury (1865–1949) – British painter and suffragette •
Marie Brackenbury (1866–1950) – British painter and suffragette, her home was known as "Mouse Castle" because it looked after recovering hunger strikers •
Jane Esdon Brailsford (1876–1937) – Scottish suffragette, member of the WSPU •
Bertha Brewster (1887–1959) – English peace activist and suffragette, member of the WSPU then the
United Suffragists •
Ursula Bright (1835–1915) – English suffragist and activist for married women's property rights, a founder member of the
Manchester Society for Women's Suffrage in 1867 •
Maud Mary Brindley – English artist and suffragette, member of the WSPU, arrested for breaking windows on London's Oxford Street • to
London, women pictured include
Sarah Benett,
Agnes Brown and
Florence Gertrude de FonblanqueAgnes Brown (1866–1943) – Scottish suffragist and writer, member of the WFL and secretary of
Northern Men's Federation for Women's Suffrage •
Myra Sadd Brown (1872–1938) – English suffragette activist in the WSPU, imprisoned and force-fed after breaking a window at the War Office •
Annie Leigh Browne (1851–1936) – British educationist and suffragist, co-founder of
College Hall, London and the
Women's Local Government Society •
Millicent Browne (1881–1975) – British suffragette, pacifist and teacher, •
Constance Bryer (1870–1952) – British classical violinist and suffragette, member of the WSPU and the
Church League for Women's Suffrage (CLWS), served four months in prison for breaking windows on London’s Regent Street •
Amy Bull (1877–1953) – British teacher, suffragist and tax resister, arrested on Black Friday •
Lady Constance Bulwer-Lytton (1869–1923) – British suffragette, speaker and campaigner for prison reform, votes for women, and birth control •
Evaline Hilda Burkitt (1876–1955) – English suffragette, member of the WSPU, first suffragette to be force-fed •
Frances Buss (1827–1894) – British educator, headmistress and feminist, pioneer of women's education, member of the
Kensington Society •
Josephine Butler (1828–1906) – English feminist, author, social reformer concerned about the welfare of prostitutes •
Mary Burton (1819–1909) – Scottish social and educational reformer, and supporter of the
Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage •
Mary Bury – English suffragist, secretary of the Newcastle Suffrage Society and organiser for the NUWSS in northern England and Scotland
C • and
Mabel Capper in 1908
Elizabeth Cadbury (1858–1951) – British philanthropist and suffragist •
Edward Caird (1835–1908) – Scottish philosopher, founder member of the
Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage •
Mona Caird (1854–1932) – English novelist and essayist who wrote in support of women's suffrage, member of the NUWSS, WFL, the
Women's Emancipation Union (WEU), the
London Society for Women's Suffrage and the
Theosophical Society •
Florence Canning (1863–1914) – British suffragette, chair of the executive committee of the
Church League for Women's Suffrage •
Mabel Capper (1888–1966) – English journalist and suffragette, activist for the WSPU; imprisoned many times, and force-fed •
Isabella Carrie (1878–1981) – Scottish suffragette, schoolteacher and safe house keeper for the WSPU • selling the
Votes for Women newspaper
Joan Cather (1882–1967) – British suffragette awarded the Hunger Strike Medal, honorary propaganda secretary of the
Church League for Women's Suffrage •
Dorothea Chalmers Smith (1874–1944) – Scottish doctor and suffragist •
Adeline Chapman (1847–1931) – English suffragist and founding president of the
New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage (NCS) •
Ellen Chapman – English suffragist and local politician, and the first woman councillor for Worthing, founder and president of the Worthing Women's Franchise Society, member of the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society, member of the NUWSS and member of the CUWFA •
Grace Chappelow (1884–1971) – English suffragette, member of the WSPU, arrested for window smashing •
Jane Clapperton (1832–1914) – British
philosopher, birth control pioneer, social reformer and suffragist, member of the
Edinburgh Women's Suffrage Society, WSPU and WFL •
Alice Clark (1874–1934) – served on the executive committee of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, daughter of
Helen Priestman Bright •
Mary Jane Clarke (1862–1910) – British suffragette arrested for window smashing, held in HM Prison Holloway and force-fed, sister of suffragette leader
Emmeline Pankhurst •
Lila Clunas (1876–1968) – Scottish suffragette and Labour party councillor •
Anne Cobden-Sanderson (1853–1926) – English socialist and suffragette •
Jane Cobden (1851–1947) – Liberal politician who was active in many radical causes; treasurer for the NUWSS and co-founder of the
Women's Franchise League (WFL) •
Ellen Melicent Cobden (1848–1914) – writer and activist who donated funds to the WSPU and participated in the Women’s Suffrage Procession, organized by the Women’s Freedom League •
Leonora Cohen (1873–1978) – British militant suffragette and trade unionist; bodyguard for Emmeline Pankhurst •
Florence Annie Conybeare (1872–1916) – British activist, campaigned in support of women's suffrage, organized a meeting of the NUWSS •
Selina Cooper (1864–1946) – Suffragist, textile mill worker, local magistrate, member of the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage •
Catherine Corbett (1869–1950) – British suffragette; jailed and went on hunger strike •
Annie Coultate (1856–1931) – teacher and founder of the local WSPU branch in York •
Annie Walker Craig (1864–1948) – British suffragette involved in rock-throwing and arson in England and Scotland •
Jessie Craigen ( – 1899) – British working-class suffragist who gave speeches across the country •
Muriel Craigie (1889–1971) – Scottish suffragist, and wartime volunteer organiser •
Virginia Mary Crawford (1862–1948) – British Catholic suffragist, journalist and author, a co-founder of the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society •
Helen Crawfurd (1877–1954) – Scottish suffragette,
rent strike organiser and
communist activist •
Rose Mary Crawshay (1828–1907) – British philanthropist, vice president of the Bristol and West of England National Society for Women's Suffrage •
Richmal Crompton (1890–1969) – English schoolmistress, writer and suffragist •
Mary Crudelius (1839–1877) – early supporter of women's suffrage and campaigner for women's education; a founder of the
Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women •
Helen Cruickshank (1886–1975) – Scottish poet and suffragette, member of the WSPU •
Jessie Landale Cumberland (1861–1935) – British suffragette, awarded the Hunger Strike Medal
D • '' on 9 June 1913, reporting the death of
Emily Wilding DavisonEmily Davies (1830–1921) – English suffragist, co-founder of
Kensington Society and Britain's first women's college,
Girton College, Cambridge •
Emily Wilding Davison (1872–1913) – English teacher and militant suffragette activist, key member of the WSPU, died in a protest action at Epsom racetrack •
Margaret Davidson (suffragist) (1879–1978) – Scottish educator, suffragist, volunteer war nurse, and early leader of the
Girl Guides •
Helena Deneke – British academic and suffragist, member of the
Oxford Women Students' Society for Women's Suffrage (OWSSWS) and treasurer of the NUWSS •
John McAusland Denny (1858–1922) – Scottish businessman, Conservative Party politician and founder member of the
Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage • speaking to a crowd of men in
PortsmouthCharlotte Despard (1844–1939) –
Anglo-Irish novelist,
Sinn Féin activist, co-founder of the WFL and the
Irish Women's Franchise League •
Sarah Dickenson (1868–1954) – British trade unionist and suffragist, member of the Manchester Society for Women's Suffrage (linked to the NUWSS) •
Margaret Dilke (1857–1914) – British writer and suffragist •
Violet Mary Doudney (1889–1952) – teacher and militant suffragette, member of the WSPU and awarded the Hunger Strike Medal •
Katherine Douglas Smith (born 1878) – English suffragette and WSPU organiser and others under arrest in London in 1914 •
Lillian Dove-Willcox (1875–1963) – British suffragette who was a member of Emmeline Pankhurst's personal bodyguard •
Caroline Lowder Downing – Welsh suffragette, member of the WSPU •
Edith Downing (1857–1931) – Welsh artist, sculptor and suffragette, member of the WSPU •
Alice Dowson (1844–1927) – Nottingham Activist and Suffragist •
Hilda Dowson (1844–1927) – Nottingham activist and suffragist •
Maud Dowson (1936–?) – Nottingham suffragist
Flora Drummond (1878–1949) – British suffragette, organiser for WSPU, imprisoned nine times for her activism in women's suffrage movement, inspiring orator nicknamed "the General" •
Bessie Drysdale (1871–1950) – member of the WSPU's National Executive Committee, one of the 52 women arrested during a suffragette march to the
House of Commons in 1907, and writer for the short lived radical feminist magazine
The Freewoman (1911–1913) •
Charles Vickery Drysdale (1874–1961) – one of the founding members of the
Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage in 1907 •
Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864–1942) – British artist and suffragette •
Lilla Durham (1871–1935) – British musician and suffragette, arrested for window smashing •
Elsie Duval (1892–1919) – English suffragette and member of WSPU, first woman released from prison under the
Cat and Mouse Act •
Emily Duval (1860–1924) – English suffragette, member of the WSPU and WFL, participant in the "
Grille Incident", mother of Elsie Duval married to Victor Duval •
Victor Duval (1879–1945) – British suffrage activist, founder of the
Men's Political Union for Women's Enfranchisement (MPU) in 1910, published the leaflet
An Appeal to Men to persuade men to take up the militant struggle for women's suffrage •
Amy Dillwyn – Welsh novelist, businesswoman, suffragist and social benefactor; member of the NUWSS
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Florence Earengey (1877–1963) – British suffragette involved in multiple suffrage organisations; in charge of literature for the Cheltenham branch of the NUWSS •
Louise Eates (1877–1944) – suffragette, chair of Kensington Women's Social and Political Union and a women's education activist •
Gertrude Eaton (1864–1940) – Welsh singer and suffragist •
Maude Edwards (fl. 1914) – Scottish suffragette who was force-fed in prison despite having a heart condition •
Norah Elam (1878–1961) – British suffragette, anti-vivisectionist and prominent member of the WSPU; imprisoned three times •
Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy (1833–1918) – public speaker and writer; formed the first British suffragist society, first paid employee of the British Women's Movement •
Alice Embleton (1876–1960) –
biologist,
zoologist, and suffragist •
Mary Emmott (1866–1954), British political activist, member of the executive of the
London Society for Women's Suffrage •
Louisa Entwistle (born 1887) – English suffragette and mill worker •
Dorothy Evans (1888–1944) – British activist and organiser, worked for WSPU in England and the north of Ireland; imprisoned several times •
Kate Williams Evans (1866–1961) – Welsh suffragette
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Caprina Fahey (1883–1959) – British-Italian suffragette, received the WSPU
Hunger Strike Medal "for Valour" in 1914 •
Margaret Milne Farquharson (1884–c. 1936) – Scottish suffragette, member of the WFL, MP candidate and leader of the National Political League campaigning for Palestine • in
Parliament SquareChristian Farquharson-Kennedy (1870–1917), Scottish teacher, socialist and suffragist •
Millicent Fawcett (1847–1929) – English feminist, writer, political and union leader; president of the NUWSS •
Florence Feek (1876–1940) – British suffragette and Post Office worker •
Ada Flatman (1876–1952) – English suffragette, employed by the WSPU to organise their activities in
Liverpool •
Lettice Floyd (1865–1934) – British suffragette, set up a
Berkswell outpost of the Birmingham Women's Suffrage Society and later a full-time paid organiser of the WSPU, imprisoned and went on hunger strike •
Florence Gertrude de Fonblanque (1864–1949) – British suffragist, organiser of the 1912 women's suffrage march from Edinburgh to London •
Isabella Ford (1855–1924) – English social reformer, suffragist and writer •
Lillian Forrester (1879–1973) – British suffragette who led an attack on paintings at
Manchester Art Gallery, member of the WSPU •
Hugh Franklin – British suffragist and politician, one of the founding members of the Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage in 1907 •
Helen Fraser (1881–1979) – Scottish suffragist, speaker and artist, member of the WSPU
Rhoda Garrett (1841–1882) – English interior designer and suffragist •
Theresa Garnett (1888–1966) – British suffragette and member of the WSPU, attacked the President of the Board of Trade and chained herself to a statue in the Houses of Parliament •
Edith Garrud (1872–1971) – British martial artist and suffragette, first trainer of "the Bodyguard," formed in response to the Cat and Mouse Act •
Elizabeth Finlayson Gauld (–1941) – Scottish suffrage campaigner based in Edinburgh • in her prison uniform in 1913
Katharine Gatty (1870–1952) – British journalist, lecturer, nurse and militant suffragette, member of the WSPU • in a
Home Office police surveillance photograph of 1914
Mary Gawthorpe (1881–1973) – English socialist, trade unionist, editor, active in the suffrage movement in both England and the United States •
Ellison Scotland Gibb (1879–1970) – Scottish suffragette and
chess player •
Emma Gifford (1840–1912) – English writer and suffragist, member of the
London Society for Women's Suffrage •
Marion Gilchrist (1864–1952) – Scottish doctor and suffragist, one of the founding members of the
Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage, later joined the WSPU •
Helga Gill (1885–1928) – Norwegian-born British suffragist who spoke at meetings •
Edith Gittins – English artist and social reformer, ounder of the Leicester Women’s Liberal Association in 1886 and supported the Leicester Women’s Suffrage Society •
Katie Edith Gliddon (1883–1967) – British watercolour artist and militant suffragette •
Nellie Godfrey – English suffragette, awarded the Hunger Strike Medal •
Frances Gordon (born ) – British suffragette, prominent in the militant wing of the Scottish women's suffrage movement, member of the WSPU, imprisoned and force-fed •
Eva Gore-Booth (1870–1926) – Irish writer and suffragist, member of the executive committee of the NUWSS and co-secretary of the Manchester and Salford Women's Trade Union Council •
Lady Anna Gore-Langton – English campaigner, president of the Bath committee of the NUWSS, petitioned
Stafford Northcote the
Chancellor of the Exchequer concerning a bill to allow women the vote •
Gerald Gould (1885–1936) – English writer, known as a journalist, reviewer, essayist, and poet; co-founder of
United Suffragists •
Rosa E. Grindon (1848–1923) – British suffragist and writer on
Shakespeare •
Geraldine Grove (1863–1926) – English aristocrat, diarist and essayist, wrote to support women's suffrage,
anti-vivisection and
anti-vaccination •
Alice Gruner (1846–1929) – Estonian-born English educator, social worker, and suffragist •
Joan Lavender Bailie Guthrie (1889–1914) – British suffragette, and member of the WSPU, imprisoned for window smashing •
Cicely Hale (1884–1981) –
health visitor and author; worked for the WSPU and
The Suffragette •
Nellie Hall (1895–1929) – British suffragette, god-daughter of
Emmeline Pankhurst, member of the WSPU who was imprisoned twice •
Lilias Ashworth Hallett (1844–1922) – British suffragist and Quaker who helped to fund suffrage campaigning activities, member of the
London Society for Women's Suffrage, member of the executive committee of the NUWSS and member of the WSPU •
Marie Frances Lisette Hanbury, Baroness Willoughby de Broke (1868–1941) – British peeress and suffragist, member of the
Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association (CUWFA) • in 1907
Hazel Hunkins Hallinan (1890–1982) – American women's rights activist, journalist, and suffragist who moved to Britain and was active in the women's movement there •
Cicely Hamilton (1872–1952) – English actress, writer, journalist and feminist •
Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair (1857–1939) – author, philanthropist, and an advocate of woman's interests; head of the Women's Liberal Federation, which advocated for women's suffrage •
Marion Coates Hansen (1870–1947) – English suffragist, early member of the WSPU and co-founder of the WFL •
Agnes Harben – English suffragist and socialist, a founder of the
United Suffragists •
Keir Hardie (1856–1915) – Scottish socialist and founder of the
Labour Party, later a campaigner for women's suffrage •
Emily J. Harding (1850–1940) – British artist, illustrator and suffragette •
Gertrude Harding – Canadian-born suffragette, lived in England and member of the WSPU •
Beatrice Harraden (1864–1936) – British writer and suffragette, member of the WSPU •
Lillian Mary Harris (1887–1964) – English suffragette, active in Britain and Australia, member of the
Women's Socialist Federation (set up in 1914 as the East London Federation of Suffragettes by
Sylvia Pankhurst) •
Mary Dormer Harris (1867–1936) – English suffragist, local historian, writer and organiser of conferences in the Midlands area •
Jane Ellen Harrison (1850–1928) – British classicist,
linguist, feminist, co-founder of modern studies in
Greek mythology, supporter of women's suffrage •
Kate Harvey (1862–1946) – participated in the
Women's Tax Resistance League and was jailed for her refusal to pay tax if she were not allowed the right to vote •
Evelina Haverfield (1867–1920) – British suffragette and aid worker and nurse in World War I, member of the WSPU, arrested several times •
Alice Hawkins (1863–1946) – English suffragette among the boot and shoe machinists of Leicester, jailed five times for militant action •
Annie Elizabeth Helme (1874–1963) – suffragist, JP, first female mayor of
Lancaster in 1932 •
Mary H. J. Henderson (1874–1938) – Scottish suffragette and war poet, honorary secretary of Dundee Women's Suffrage Society, and administrator with
Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service •
Frances Heron-Maxwell (1863 – 1955) – sportswoman and suffragist, co-founder of the Liberal Women’s Suffrage Society •
Elizabeth Ellen (Beth) Hesmondhalgh (fl. 1907–1914), suffragette and Hunger Strike Medal recipient • in 1910
Margaret Hills (1882–1967) – British teacher, public speaker, feminist and socialist; organizer of the NUWSS Election Fighting Fund •
Edith Mary Hinchley (1870–1940) – artist and member of the WFL • in 1910Reverend
Claude Hinscliff (1875–1964) – founder of the
Church League for Women's Suffrage •
Emily Hobhouse (1860–1926) – exposed the squalid conditions in concentration camps in South Africa during the
Second Boer War; active in the
People's Suffrage Federation •
Margaret Emily Hodge (1858–1938) – British educator, suffragist and pacifist active in Britain and Australia, member of the
Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales (WSL), the
British Dominions Women's Suffrage Union (BDWSU) and the WFL •
Olive Hockin (1881–1936) – British suffragette, artist and author; imprisoned after arson attacks suspected to be suffragette-related •
Vera Holme (1881–1969) – British actress, member of the AFL, driver and chauffeur for the Pankhurst family • ,
Edith How Martyn and
Emma Sproson c. 1914
Winifred Holtby (1898–1935) – English feminist, socialist, and writer, including a new voters guide for women in 1929 •
Edith Sophia Hooper (1868–1926) – English suffragist and biographer of Josephine Butler •
Winifred Horrabin (1887–1971) – British socialist activist, journalist, member of the WSPU •
Clemence Housman (1861–1955) – English author, illustrator, co-founder of the
Suffrage Atelier •
Edith How-Martyn (1875–1954) – British suffragette, joint secretary of the WSPU and co-founder of the WFL, arrested in the lobby of the House of Commons trying to give a speech which was one of the first acts of suffragette militancy •
Elsie Howey (1884–1963) – English suffragette who was jailed at least six times and dressed as
Joan of Arc during a WSPU demonstration in London •
Ann Harriet Hughes –
Welsh language novelist, poet, and newspaper editor, supporter of temperance and women's suffrage movements •
Ellen Hughes (1867–1927) – Welsh writer, poet, temperance reformer and suffragist •
Florence Hull (born 1878) – English suffragette, member of WSPU, imprisoned in January 1913 •
Ethel Hurlbatt (1866–1934) – British academic and suffragist, member of the Cardiff and District National Suffrage Society and honorary secretary for the Association for Promoting the Education of Women •
Agnes Husband (1852–1929) – Scottish politician and suffragette
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Charlotte Iliffe, Baroness Iliffe (1881–1972) – English aristocrat, philanthropist and suffragist, member of the Coventry Women's Suffrage Society (CWSS) •
Elsie Inglis (1864–1917) – Scottish doctor, secretary of the
Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage and founder of the
Scottish Women's Hospitals •
Paulina Irby (1831–1911) – British travel writer and suffragist •
Margaret Irwin (1858–1940) – Scottish trade unionist, suffragist and founder member of the
Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage J • Jane (Jennie) Alice Jackson (1880-1955) Preston, Lancashire mill worker. Imprisoned in 1907 at Holloway for suffragette activities. Key organiser against the census 1911. Member of the Independent Labour Party. •
Christina Jamieson (1864–1942) – Scottish writer and suffragette • in 1910
Gabrielle Jeffery (1886–1940) – British suffragist and founder of the
Catholic Women's Suffrage Society •
Dorothy Jewson (1884–1964) – British teacher, trade union organiser, Labour Party politician and suffragist •
Dorothy Jinarajadasa (1881–1963) – English justice of the peace, suffragette, theosophist and writer based in India, member of the
Women's Indian Association •
Maud Joachim (1869–1947) – English suffragette who was one of the first to go on hunger strike, member of the WSPU • in London in 1911
C. E. M. Joad (1891–1953) – English philosopher, teacher and broadcasting personality, member of the
Men's League for Women's Suffrage •
Ellen Isabel Jones (died 1948) – English suffragette and close associate of the
Pankhurst family •
Helena Jones (1870–1946) – Welsh doctor and member of the WSPU •
Mabel Jones (1865–1923) – English doctor and suffragette •
Violet Key Jones (1883–1958) – Anglo-Irish writer and suffragette, treasurer of the WSPU branch in York •
Lily Delissa Joseph (1863–1940) – British painter and suffragist
K • in 1909
Gladice Keevil (1884–1959) – British suffragette, head of the WSPU in the Midlands area •
Annie Kenney (1879–1953) – English working class suffragette and leading figure in the WSPU • in 1913
Jessie Kenney (1887–1985) – English leading suffragette, assaulted the British prime minister and the home secretary at a golf course •
Kitty Kenney (1880–1952) – English suffragette, member of the WSPU •
Nell Kenney (1876–1953) – English suffragette •
Jessie Keppie (1868–1951) – Scottish artist and subscriber to the
Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage •
Alice Stewart Ker (1853–1943) – Scottish doctor, health educator and suffragette •
Harriet Kerr (1859–1940) – British suffragette and office manager of the WSPU headquarters •
Edith Key (1872–1937) – British secretary-organiser of the WSPU,
Huddersfield branch, and author of the only surviving regional WSPU minute book •
Mary Stewart Kilgour (1851–1955) – British educationalist and writer, co-founder of the Union of Practical Suffragists •
Jessie M. King – Scottish illustrator and suffragist •
Anne Knight (1786–1862) – British social reformer, pioneer of feminism, early suffragette and pamphleteer •
Louisa Knightley – British suffragist, founding president of the CUWFA
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Agnes Lake (1887–1972) – English suffragist, hunger striker and business manager of the WSPU’s newspaper
The Suffragette •
Aeta Lamb (1886–1928) – British suffragette and longest serving organiser in the WSPU •
Dorothy Layton (1887–1959) – English suffragist and Liberal Party politician, member of the NUWSS •
Jennie Lee (1904–1988) – Scottish politician, elected MP aged 24 in 1929
by-election before suffrage was extended to women under 30 •
Harriet Leisk (1853–1921) – Shetland suffragist and chair of the
Shetland Women's Suffrage Society •
Lilian Lenton (1891–1972) – English member of the WSPU, winner of a French Red Cross for her service in WWI •
Henrietta Leslie (1884–1946) – British suffragette, writer and pacifist •
Elizabeth Lidgett (1843–1919) – British Poor Law guardian and suffragist •
Victoria Lidiard (1889–1992) – WPSU member and reputed to be the longest surviving British suffragette •
Ellen Kate Limouzin (1870–1950) – suffragist and member of the
Actresses' Franchise League •
Anna Lindsay (activist) (1845–1903) – Scottish women's rights activist •
Thomas Martin Lindsay (1843–1914) – Scottish historian, professor and founder member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage •
Florence Lockwood (1861–1937) – British suffragist active in West Yorkshire, served on the executive of the Huddersfield Branch of the NUWSS •
Mary Lowndes (1857–1929) – British stained-glass artist and suffragette, chair of the
Artists' Suffrage League (ASL) and member of the NUWSS •
Gertrude Golda Lowy (1887–1982) – English suffragette member of the WSPU, awarded the Hunger Strike Medal and member of the
Jewish League for Woman Suffrage •
Margaret Bright Lucas (1818–1890) – temperance activist and suffragist •
Louisa Lumsden (1840–1935) – Scottish pioneer of female education and suffrage speaker, president of the Aberdeen branch of the NUWSS, planted
The Suffrage Oak in
Glasgow •
Ann Macbeth (1875–1948) – British artist, educator and suffragist, member of the WSPU •
Agnes Syme Macdonald (1882–1966) – Scottish suffragette who served as the secretary of the Edinburgh branch of the WSPU before setting up the Edinburgh Women Citizens Association (WCA) in 1918 •
Louisa Macdonald (1858–1949) – Scottish educationalist and suffragist •
Florence Macfarlane (1867–1947) – Scottish nurse and suffragette known as "
Dundee’s hunger striker," member of the WSPU •
Chrystal Macmillan (1872–1937) – British politician, barrister, feminist and pacifist, member of the NUWSS and secretary of the
International Woman Suffrage Alliance •
Marion Mackenzie (born 1873) – British medical doctor and suffragette, cofounded the WSPU branch in
Scarborough • c. 1909
Sarah Mair (1846–1941) – Scottish campaigner for women's education and suffrage •
Lavinia Malcolm (1847–1920) – Scottish suffragist and local Liberal Movement politician, the first Scottish woman to be elected to a local council (1907) and the first woman Lord Provost of a Scottish burgh town, in Dollar, Clackmannanshire •
Evelyn Manesta – British suffragette, damaged paintings in Manchester Art Gallery and was imprisoned for a month •
Kate Manicom (1893–1937) – British suffragette and trade unionist •
Grace Marcon (1889–1965) – British suffragette who damaged five paintings in the National Gallery •
Edith Mansell-Moullin (1859–1941) – English suffragist, settlement worker, and founder of the
Cymric Suffrage Union in Wales • in 1910
Catherine Marshall (1880–1961) – British suffragette and campaigner against war conscription, member of the NUWSS, founder of the
Keswick branch •
Christabel Marshall (1871–1960) – English author and suffragist •
Flora Masson (1856–1937) – Scottish nurse, suffragist, writer and editor •
Mildred Mansel (1868–1942) – English suffragette, organiser for the WSPU in Bath and member of the
Central Society for Women's Suffrage, arrested in Wales • c. 1910
Grace Marcon (1889–1965) – British suffragette; damaged five paintings in the
National Gallery •
Kitty Marion (1871–1944) – German-born English actress, suffragette and birth control activist, member of the WSPU, perpetrated arson attacks, sentenced to three years in prison •
Dora Marsden (1882–1960) – English anarcho-feminist, suffragette, editor of literary journals, and philosopher of language; member of the WSPU •
Charlotte Marsh (1842–1909) – British suffragette, joined the WSPU in March 1907, set up the Independent WSPU in March 1916, first suffragette to be arrested in
Hull •
Katherine "Kitty" Marshall (1870–1947) – British suffragette, member of the WSPU, one of the
suffrajitsu bodyguards of the movement, awarded the hunger strike medal • in 1906
Nellie Martel (1855–1940) – English-Australian suffragist and elocutionist •
Rita Martin (1875–1958) – English photographer and suffragist • •
Louisa Martindale (1839–1914) – English suffragist and activist, member of the NUWSS •
Bertha Mason (1855–1939) – English suffragist and
temperance campaigner, committee member of the NUWSS and the
National Council of Women of Great Britain •
Flora Masson (1856–1937) – Scottish nurse, editor, writer and suffragist, daughter of suffragist Emily Rosaline Orme • in 1913
Rosamund Massy (1870–1947) – English suffragette, member of the WSPU awarded the hunger strike medal, one of the organisers of the
Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst Memorial in London •
Muriel Matters (1877–1969) – Australian-born actress,
elocutionist and suffragist who campaigned with the WFL in England, participant in the "
Grille Incident" •
Helen Matthews – Scottish suffragette and women's footballer •
Constance Maud (1856 – 11 May 1929) – English writer and suffragette, member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, author of
No Surrender in 1911, a novel about the struggle for votes for women, and articles for the
Votes for Women newspaper •
Jenny Maude (1857–1935) – author of her famous mother
Jenny Lind's biography. In 1908, can be seen marching with her mother's suffragette banner •
Lilly Maxwell (1800–1876) – early British suffragist •
Isabella Fyvie Mayo (1843–1914) – Scottish poet, novelist, suffragist, and reformer •
Winifred Mayo (1869–1967) – British actress and suffragette, co-founder of the AFL •
Elspeth Douglas McClelland (1879–1920) – English architect and suffragette, "human letter" sent with South African suffragette
Daisy Solomon •
Janet McCallum (1881–1946) – Scottish trade unionist and suffragist •
Margaret McCoubrey (1880–1955) – Belfast suffragette, member of the WSPU, pacifist and
co-operatist •
Elizabeth McCracken (1871–1944) – Irish feminist writer ("L.A.M. Priestley"), Belfast WSPU militant, refused wartime political truce with the government • pictured in the
Cheltenham Graphic in 1905
Harriet McIlquham (1837–1910) – English suffragist, poor law guardian and local councillor; co-founded the WFL and
Women's Emancipation Union (WEU) •
Agnes McLaren (1837–1913) – British doctor and suffragette, gave suffrage lectures in
Orkney and
Shetland, secretary of the
Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage alongside her stepmother
Priscilla Bright McLaren •
Priscilla Bright McLaren (1815–1906) – Scottish suffragist, anti-slavery activist, founder and president of Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage •
Frances McPhun (1880–1940) – Scottish suffragette who served two months in Holloway prison, sister of Margaret McPhun •
Margaret McPhun (1876–1960) – Scottish suffragette who served two months in Holloway prison, sister of Frances McPhun •
Flora Merrifield (1859–1943) – English suffragist •
Gertrude Metcalfe-Shaw (born 1864) – British suffragette, awarded the hunger strike medal •
Lillian Metge (1871–1954) – Anglo-Irish suffragette, bombed
Christ Church Cathedral in
Lisburn, Northern Ireland, member of the WSPU and Hunger Strike medallist •
Jessie C. Methven (1854–1917) – Scottish suffragist, suffragette, honorary secretary of
Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage, joined the WSPU 1906 •
Adele Meyer (1855–1930) – English socialite, social reformer, suffragist and philanthropist, supporter of the
Women's Tax Resistance League (WTRL) and the Anti-Sweating League •
Alice Meynell (1847–1922) – English poet and suffragist, vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League and co-founder of the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society •
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) – English philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, brought the first parliamentary proposal to enfranchise some women •
Hannah Mitchell (1872–1956) – English suffragette and socialist •
Graham Moffat (1866–1951) – Scottish actor, director, playwright and
spiritualist, husband of Maggie Moffat and founder of the
Northern Men's Federation for Women's Suffrage in Glasgow •
Maggie Moffat (1873–1943) – British actor and suffragette •
Dora Montefiore (1851–1933) – English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet and autobiography writer •
Decima Moore (1871–1964) – English actress and
soprano, co-founder of the AFL •
Clara Mordan (1844–1915) – British suffragist and benefactor to the WSPU •
Mary Morris (1873–1925) – Welsh doctor and suffragist • in 1909
Alice Morrissey (1868–1912) – English suffragette, socialist and Catholic activist •
Annie Mullin (1847–1921) – Welsh
suffragist, social worker and
Liberal councillor •
Anna Munro (1881–1962) – Scottish suffragist, secretary of the WFL in Scotland •
Mary Murdoch (1864–1916) – Scottish physician and suffragist •
Eunice Murray (1878–1960) – Scottish suffragist, member of the WFL, and only Scottish woman who stood for election when UK elections were opened to women in 1918 •
Flora Murray (1869–1923) – Scottish physician and suffragette •
Frances Murray (1843–1919) – Scottish suffragist, advocate of women's education, lecturer in Scottish music and a writer, member of the WFL •
Jessie Murray (1867–1920) – British psychoanalyst and suffragette, member of the WFL •
Sylvia Murray (1875–1955) – suffragette and author, the sister of suffragette Eunice Guthrie Murray •
Margaret Mylne (1806–1892) – Scottish suffragette and writer awarded to
Marie du Sautoy Newby N •
Marie Naylor (1856–1940) – British artist and suffragette •
Mary Neal (1860–1944) – English social worker, suffragette and collector of English folk dances •
Elizabeth Neesom ( – 1866) – prominent English
Radical and
Chartist •
Dorinda Neligan (1833–1914) – Irish-born English headmistress and suffragette •
Margaret Nevinson (1858–1932) – English suffragist, Justice of the Peace, Poor Law guardian and playwright, member of the Church League for Women's Suffragem WSPU and WFL • and
Mary Leigh in 1908
Edith New (1877–1951) – English suffragette who was one of the first two suffragettes to use vandalism as a tactic, chained herself to the railings of
10 Downing Street alongside Olivia Smith, shouting "Votes for Women!" •
Marie du Sautoy Newby (1880–1962) – English suffragette awarded the Hunger Strike Medal •
Harriet Christina Newcomb – English feminist, activist, and educationist, member of the WFL, active in Australia and Britain •
Alison Neilans (1884–1942) – English suffragette, member of the executive committee of the WFL and member of the
Church League for Women's Suffrage, the
International Woman Suffrage Alliance and the
East London Federation of Suffragettes, imprisoned for trying to pour fluid into a by-election ballot box •
Jessie Newbery (1864–1948) – Scottish artist and suffragist •
Priscilla Norman (1883–1964) – British activist and suffragist, member of the Liberal Women's Suffrage Union
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Mary Gawthorpe c. 1906-1909 •
Helen Ogston (1882–1973) – Scottish suffragette known for interrupting
David Lloyd George on 5 December 1908 at a meeting in the
Royal Albert Hall and subsequently holding off the stewards with a dog whip, paid organiser for the
New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage •
Emily Rosaline Orme (1835–1915) – Scottish suffragist, member of the
Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage P • (left) and
Christabel Pankhurst (centre) and
Sylvia Pankhurst at
Waterloo Station in 1911
Elizabeth Margaret Pace (1866–1957) – Scottish doctor, suffragist and advocate for women's health and women's rights, founder member of the
Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage •
Christabel Pankhurst (1880–1958) – British suffragette, co-founder and leader of the WSPU •
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928) – British suffragette, founder and the leader of the British Suffragette Movement,
Annie Kenny and
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence c. 1912 •
Richard Pankhurst – British barrister, politician and supporter of women's suffrage, member of the committee of the Manchester Society for Women's Suffrage, married to Emmeline Pankhurst •
Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960) – British suffragette, socialist and anti-fascism activist •
Frances Mary "Fanny" Parker (1875–1924) – New Zealand-born suffragette prominent in the militant wing of the Scottish women's suffrage movement, repeatedly imprisoned for her actions • outside Ayr Sheriff Court in 1914
Daisy Parsons (1890–1957) – British suffragette and mayor, member of the
East London Federation of Suffragettes (ELFS), part of a delegation to the Prime Minister in 1914 •
Grace Paterson (1843–1925) – Scottish school board member, temperance activist, suffragist, and founder of the Glasgow School of Cookery •
Jessie Payne (1864–1933) – British suffragette, member of the ELFS, part of a delegation to the Prime Minister in 1914 •
Fanny Pease (1866–1946) – British civilian and military nurse, suffragette, arrested for window smashing •
Frederick Pethick-Lawrence – British Labour politician and editor who campaigned for women's suffrage •
Dorothy Pethick (1881–1970) – British suffragette, member of the WSPU, younger sister of Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence •
Emily Jane Pfeiffer – Welsh feminist poet and philanthropist who supported women's suffrage and higher education for women •
Leonora Philipps (1862–1915) – British Liberal suffragist, president of Welsh Union of Women's Liberal Associations and co-founder of the
Pioneer Club •
Mary Phillips (1880–1969), English suffragette, paid official of the
Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage, then established a Glasgow branch of the WSPU •
Emily Phipps (1865–1943) – English teacher, barrister and suffragette, member of the WFL •
Caroline Phillips (1874–1956) – Scottish feminist, suffragette, journalist and honorary secretary of the Aberdeen branch of the WSPU •
Edith Picton-Turbervill (1872–1960) – English social reformer, suffragist, writer and Labour Party politician •
Catherine Pine (1864–1941) – British nurse and suffragette •
Ellen Pitfield (1857–1912) – suffragette who sustained injuries at Black Friday and who set a fire at the King Edward Street Post office in London; was arrested and released after the
Men's Political Union for Women's Enfranchisement started a petition on her behalf •
Isabella Potbury (1890–1965) – portrait painter, suffragette •
Miriam Pratt (1893–1975) – British suffragette and arsonist •
Aileen Preston (1889–1974) – Anglo-Irish suffragette,
Emmeline Pankhurst's chauffeur and the first woman in history to qualify for the
Automobile Association Certificate in Driving •
Catherine Prichard (1842–1909) – Welsh poet and suffragette
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Dorothy Hartopp Radcliffe and
Elsa Gye in 1908 •
Clara Rackham (1875–1966) – English magistrate, prison reformer, factory inspector, long-serving alderman and city councillor in
Cambridge, member of the Cambridge Women's Suffrage Association •
Dorothy Hartopp Radcliffe (1887–1959) – British suffragette, member of the WSPU, and later a
Carmelite nun •
Jane Rae (1872–1959) – Scottish political activist, suffragette, councillor and justice of the peace •
Katherine Raleigh (1852–1922) – English classics scholar, suffragist, tax resister and local organiser in
Uxbridge,
Nelly Crocker,
Gladys Roberts and
Edith New in 1909 •
Eleanor Rathbone (1872–1946) – campaigner for women's rights and independent Member of Parliament; member of the
Liverpool Women's Suffrage Society and the NUWSS, wrote articles for
The Common Cause •
Marion Kirkland Reid (1815–1902) – Scottish feminist and writer, her book
A Plea for Woman was significant in the early years of the
women's suffrage movement in the United States •
Olwen Rhys (1876–1953) – Welsh scholar and suffragist; secretary to the committee of the
Oxford Women's Suffrage Society (OWSS) •
Mary Richardson (1882–1961) – Canadian-born suffragette, arsonist, head of the women's section of the
British Union of Fascists •
Edith Rigby (1872–1948) – English suffragette and arsonist; founder of St. Peter's School in
Preston •
Gladys Roberts (c. 1887/1888–1975), English suffragette and WSPU campaigner, went on hunger strike and has name embroidered on the
Suffragette Handkerchief • of 1911, including
Bhagwati Bhola Nauth and
Lolita Roy on the left
Margaret Robertson (1892–1967) – British politician, suffragist and teacher; organiser of the
Election Fighting Fund •
Elizabeth Robins (1862–1952) – American-born Ibsen actress, playwright, public speaker, and novelist, member of the WSPU and NUWSS, campaigned in Sussex •
Annot Robinson (1874–1925) – Scottish pacifist and suffragette, member of the WSPU, nicknamed Annie • at Frankby Cemetery
Rona Robinson (1881–1973) – British chemist and suffragette, member of the WSPU and in 1905 the first woman in the United Kingdom to gain a first-class degree in chemistry •
Maude Royden (1876–1956) – English preacher, suffragist and campaigner for the
ordination of women, member of the NUWSS and CLWS, member of the executive committee for the London Society of Women's Suffrage, editor of
The Common Cause newspaper, attended the
Eighth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance S • (WFL), including
Teresa Billington-Greig,
Edith How-Martyn,
Amy Sanderson and
Emma Sproson in 1910
Lavena Saltonstall (1881–1957) – English suffragette, activist for the
Women's Labour League and WSPU and writer of column "The Letters of a Tailoress" for the
Halifax Guardian •
Louise Samuel (1870–1925) – English suffragist and charity worker in 1907 •
Mathilde Wolff Van Sandau (1843–1926) – German-born British suffragette, member of the WSPU and went on hunger strike •
Margaret Mansfield, Baroness Sandhurst (1828–1892) – British suffragist and spiritualist, one of the first women elected to a city council in the United Kingdom •
Jessie Saxby (1842–1940) – Scottish author, folklorist and suffragette •
Alice Cliff Scatcherd (1842–1906) – early English suffragist •
Alice Schofield (1881–1975) – English suffragette and politician who was the first woman councillor in Middlesbrough • suffragettes, including
Julia Scurr,
Daisy Parsons and
Jessie Payne •
Julia Scurr (1871–1927) – British suffragette and politician, member of the ELFS, part of a delegation to the Prime Minister in 1914
Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington (1877–1946) – Irish suffragette and nationalist, a founder of the
Irish Women's Franchise League (IWFL) •
Genie Sheppard (1863–1953) – British medical doctor and militant suffragette, member of the WSPU, awarded the hunger strike medal •
Alice Maud Shipley (1869–1951) – English suffragist who went on hunger strike in Holloway Prison and who was force fed •
Jane Short (1881 – aft. 1932) – British feminist and suffragette, was imprisoned and force fed, awarded the hunger strike medal •
Frances Simson (1854–1938) – Scottish suffragist, campaigner for women's higher education and one of the first of eight women graduates from the
University of Edinburgh •
May Sinclair (1863–1946) – English writer and suffragist, member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League •
Sophia Duleep Singh (1876–1948) – Suffragist and Princess who had leading roles in the Women's Tax Resistance League and the WSPU, contributed towards fundraising efforts and sold
The Suffragette newspaper outside her home and from press carts •
Margaret Skinnider (1892–1971) – Irish–Scottish revolutionary and suffragette, protested at
Perth Prison for women's suffrage, composer and suffragette •
Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) – English suffragette and composer of the suffrage anthem "
The March of the Women" •
Norah Smyth (1874–1962) – British suffragette, photographer and politician, niece of Ethel Smyth
Mary Anderson Snodgrass (1862–1945) – Scottish politician, suffragist and advocate for women's rights, member of the
Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage •
Ethel Snowden (1881–1951) – English socialist, human rights activist, feminist politician, national speaker for the NUWSS • (1910), including
Jessie M. Soga,
Frances McPhun,
Annie S. Swan,
Georgina Brackenbury and others
Jessie M. Soga (1870–1954) –
Xhosa/Scottish
contralto singer, music teacher and suffragist. She was described as the only black suffrage campaigner based in Scotland and was a member of the WFL •
Daisy Solomon (1882–1978) – South African born suffragette, member of WSPU, sent as 'human letter' with
Elspeth McClelland, •
Mary Somerville (1780–1872) – Scottish science writer and
polymath •
Emma Sproson (1867–1936) – English suffragist, socialist, politician and women's rights activist, known as "Red Emma" •
Emily Spender (1841–1922) – English novelist and suffragette, honorary secretary of the Bath committee of the
National Society for Women's Suffrage (NSWS) •
Edith Splatt (1873?–1945) – British dressmaker, journalist and councillor, member of the WSPU, wrote a column titled "Womanland" for Exeter's
Express and Echo, the first woman to win a seat on
Exeter City Council • in 1930Lady
Barbara Steel (1857–1943) – Scottish suffragist and tax resister, member of the Scottish Women’s Liberal Federation and the Edinburgh Suffrage Society •
Jessie Stephen (1893–1979) – British working class suffragette and trade union activist •
Flora Stevenson (1839–1905) – Scottish social reformer and suffragist, with interest in education for poor or neglected children •
Louisa Stevenson (1835–1908) – Scottish suffragist and campaigner for women's university education and effective, well-organised nursing, co-founder of Edinburgh’s
Queen Margaret University •
Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1840–1929) – British scholar, author, and campaigner for women's rights whose book
British Freewomen: Their Historical Privilege (1894) influenced the suffrage movement •
Lucy Deane Streatfeild (1865–1950) – British civil servant, social worker, one of the first female factory inspectors, member of the NUWSS •
Emily Sturge (1847–1892) – British suffragist and women's education activist, secretary of the West of England branch of the NUWSS •
Ann Swaine (born in or before 1821–1883) – British writer, suffragist and advocate for women's higher education •
Annie S. Swan (1859–1943) – Scottish journalist, novelist and suffragette, arrested during a window smashing raid in London, later a founder-member and vice-president of the
Scottish National Party •
Helena Swanwick (1864–1939) – British feminist, pacifist and suffragist, member of the NUWSS, WSPU and WILPF
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Jane Taylour (1827–1905) – Scottish suffragist and women's movement campaigner •
Janie Terrero (1858–1944) – British suffragette, member of the WSPU, awarded the Hunger Strike Medal • being arrested in 1907
Dora Thewlis (1890–1976) – British suffragette, member of the WSPU •
Margaret Haig Thomas, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda (1883–1955) – Welsh peeress, suffragette, WSPU member, journalist, businesswoman, founder of the periodical
Time and Tide •
Muriel Thompson (1875–1939) – Scottish World War I ambulance driver, racing driver and suffragist, member of the WSPU •
Agnes Thomson (born 1846) – Scottish suffragette, member of Edinburgh WSPU,
missionary in India •
Isabella Tod (1836–1896) – Scottish suffragist, women's rights campaigner in the north of Ireland, helped women secure the municipal franchise in
Belfast •
Aethel Tollemache (c. 1875–1955) – suffragette, member of the Bath WSPU branch, went on hunger strike in Holloway Prison •
Catherine Tolson (1890–1924) – English nurse and suffragette, member of the WSPU •
Helen Tolson (1888–1955) – English suffragette, member of the WSPU, sister of Catherine Tolson •
Mabel Tuke (1871–1962) – English suffragette, honorary secretary of the WSPU •
Julia Turner (1863–1946) – British psychoanalyst and suffragette •
Minnie Turner (1866–1948) – English suffragette, ran a guest house in
Brighton, member of the NUWSS, the WTRL and the WSPU, honorary secretary of the Women's Liberal Association in Brighton, awarded the hunger strike medal •
Mary Fraser Tytler (1849–1938) – British artist and suffragist, president of the Godalming and District National Union of Women's Suffrage Society (a local branch of the NUWSS)
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Julia Varley (1871–1952) – English trade unionist and suffragette
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Melvina Walker (born 1874) – British suffragette and working class activist, member of the WSPU, the East London Federation of Suffragettes and the
Communist Party (British Section of the Third International) •
Bessie Watson (1900–1992) – Scottish child suffragette and piper •
Helen Kirkpatrick Watts (1881–1972) – English suffragette, member of the WSPU, awarded the Hunger Strike Medal •
Harriet Shaw Weaver (1876–1961) – English political activist, magazine editor and suffragist, member of the WSPU • in 1909
Beatrice Webb (1858–1943) – English sociologist, economist, socialist, labour historian, social reformer, co-founder of the
New Statesman with
Henry Devenish Harben •
Lucia Foster Welch – English politician, member of the WSPU •
Bettina Borrmann Wells (born 1874) – Bavarian-born English suffragette who toured the United States as an organizer and lecturer •
Vera Wentworth (1890–1957) – British suffragette, nurse and playwright. Member of the WSPU, was sent to Holloway Prison and was force fed. She door stepped and then assaulted the Prime Minister twice. She wrote
Three Months in Holloway •
Rebecca West (1892–1983) – British author, journalist, literary critic, travel writer, wrote articles supporting women's suffrage in the
Freewoman feminist weekly review •
Olive Wharry (1886–1947) – English suffragette, artist and arsonist; imprisoned with
Lilian Lenton for burning down the tea pavilion at
Kew Gardens, member of the Church League for Women's Suffrage and the WSPU, went on hunger strike in prison •
Monica Whately (1889–1960) – British suffragist and political activist,
Mary Estlin and
Jane Wigham •
Alice Wheeldon (1866–1919) – British anti-war campaigner and suffragist •
Edith Grey Wheelwright (1868–1949) – English botanist, writer and suffragist, secretary of the Bath branch of the NUWSS •
Charlotte Price White (1873–1932) – Welsh suffragist and politician, leader of the
Bangor branch of the NUWSS •
Eliza Wigham (1820–1899) – Scottish suffragist and abolitionist, founder member of the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage •
Ellen Wilkinson (1891–1947) – British suffragist, politician and member of parliament, served as minister of education, member of the Manchester Society for Women's Suffrage •
Gertrude Wilkinson (1851–1929) – British suffragette, member of the WSPU, Literature Secretary for the WFL, imprisoned in
Winson Green Prison and went on hunger strike •
Jeannette Wilkinson (1841–1886) – British suffragist and trade unionist •
Hannah Winbolt (1851–1928) – English suffragist •
Laetitia Withall (1881–1963) – Australian-British poet, author and suffragette, member of the WSPU •
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) – English writer and philosopher •
Celia Wray (1872–1954) – English suffragette and architect •
Barbara Wylie (1861–1954) – organiser of the Glasgow branch of the WSPU, went on a speaking tour of Canada and gave a speech that inspired the slogan "deeds not words"
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Lucy Yates (1863–1935) – British writer and suffragist, member of the WSPU and the WFL
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Israel Zangwill (1864–1926) – English writer, member of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage •
Alice Zimmern (1855–1939) – English teacher, writer and suffragist, leading member of the Barnsley Women's Suffrage Society == See also ==