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Especially when it came to women. Repeated imprisonments followed, mainly for arson attacks. Required fields are marked *. Usage terms © Telegraph Media Group Limited 1914. There were also a considerable number of arson attacks. She kept a scrapbook of clippings of arson attacks that she carried out - and included reports of bombings where the attacker is not identified. Usage terms Wyndham Lewis: © Estate of Wyndham Lewis. .css-14iz86j-BoldText{font-weight:bold;}When a student researching in the archives of a London museum read the unpublished memoirs of a suffragette bomber, she began to wonder if the history of the movement had been sanitised. We’d love your help. The suffragettes were no exception. Created around 1910, the postcards were in circulation during a time of great turmoil for the suffrage campaign, demonstrating how popular culture quickly adopted the image of the imprisoned suffragette. There are some themes that have developed. The women were not charged with terrorism as such, because no such offence existed at that time. To that I'd like to address people who aren't in the elite academic bubble, 'Have you or your friends heard of suffragette bombers? Other papers indicate she was also a bomber. Her mother had died when she was an infant, leaving her alone with a violent and unloving father. Please consider the environment before printing, All text is © British Library and is available under Creative Commons Attribution Licence except where otherwise stated. "It was the idea that women deserved a right to be safe in their working environments, and to have their independence without having to sacrifice their bodies to get it, that propelled Kitty into the fold of the suffragette movement," Riddell says. Fern Riddell assesses the scale of violent direct action used by militant suffragettes, with a focus on events from 1912 to 1914. Working, financially solvent women and interracial marriages were common here. Riddell spent hours, then days, months and eventually years, looking through huge amounts of archival documents including personal diaries, letters, court and police records, published memoirs, and newspapers to piece together Marion's life in the movement. She forged fast friendships with women - strong, sexually liberated women unlike those I had read about in the history books. On the morning of 15 September 2017 an explosion on a rush-hour train at Parsons Green underground station in west London had resulted in dozens of injuries. It is worth remembering that the working men who were injured were, like the suffragettes themselves, not allowed to vote at that time, because they were not householders. All rights reserved, DACS 2016. A parade of white-gowned suffragettes marches past in what was a very real funeral procession, held June 14, 1913, for Emily Wilding Davison, a peripheral but pivotal character in Suffragette. The author really shows the actions of the radical Women's Social and Political Union and really highlights their radicalism. Have an explore using the categories below. It is an easy and compelling read from start to finish and had me hooked throughout. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Kitty had a diverse group of friends - the son of a Chinese diplomat gave her her first cigarette. On July 19th 1913, six fires broke out in pillar boxes in Birmingham. Following the outbreak of World War One the British government seized the opportunity, Riddell says, to accuse one of the most dangerous women in the suffragette movement of being a German spy.

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