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Need to attract the attention

Conscious of the need to draw the attention of public opinion, the suffragettes' tactics became increasingly spectacular. From a blimp, Muriel Matters launched thousands of suffragist proclamations over London. Two suffragettes had themselves posted to Downing Street to petition the Prime Minister. Marion Wallace Dunlop snuck into Parliament and recorded a passage from the Bill of Rights in a corridor, while Leonora Cohen destroyed the display case containing the Crown jewels in the Tower of London. One of these actions had a tragic end: Emily Wilding Davidson died in 1913 under the king's horse when she tried to hang a suffragette ribbon on it during the Epsom Derby.

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This image was done by Sidney Grundy in 1897, and it’s a poster that talks about a new play told: The new woman.

The mind of that time was trying to change by things like that, from a poster or theatre play to a manifestation. This play tries to change their power in the society and talks about the access to the information that women had in those times, and how it was growing up this acces.

Also, some womens have become suffragette by this play, because it opened the eyes to womens that didn’t trust that would be possible.

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Mary Richardson

Violent actions were carried out by suffragettes in order to draw attention to their cause.

A good example is when the Rokeby Venus (an artwork from Diego Velázquez) was slashed by Mary Richardson. This action was triggered by Emmeline Pankhurst’s arrest.

Mary Richardson was forced fed in prison for going on a hunger strike. On top of that, she was arrested multiple times for being part of the WSPU (Woman’s Social and Political Union).

Mary Richardson was seen at the Epsom Derby, where she was chased and she was beaten up by part of the crowd until she was let inside by a employee.

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BEHIND THE MOTTO " DEEDS NOT WORK"

The suffragettes were wanted the right to vote for womens, with pacific revolutions, but one group was leadered by Emmeline Pankhurst created a motto “Deeds not words”. For this reason, the suffragettes fired the mail boxes and were broken the windows of a thousand shops, so that the government attended their petitions.

As they didn't have precise results in favor of their cause, so , in 1913, their actions were radicalizated and bombs exploded in a house that was being built for the finance minister.

Today most people are think was a Terrorism not revolution.

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"How did women obtain their right to vote?"

Apart from getting the femenin vote, women also forced the Prime Minister to change some of the laws that were socially accepted.wr

In the early 20 century, women didn't have the right to vote. This struggle got partly solved when the First World War started. Their campaign had to be put off for helping in the war.

In 1918, when the war was stopped, a rethink was needed by the British government, because they realized how crucial women had been during the war: they maintained the order in their harvest, houses could be sustained by them on their own… Overall, women and men tasks fall on women.

Obviously, women knew that they had been fundamental for holding up the war. That’s why the right to vote was claimed by them.

Finally, the right to vote was given to women over 30 years old, while men could vote over 21 years old. It wasn’t 1928 that was given the same right of vote to both genders.

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How women got the right to vote
During the world war lots of works were done by women, which refuted the people's thought that says the women are less able to do this works and the women are less intelligent. Some prime ministers rethough if the women were less able to work and if women should be able vote. In 1918 a new law that allows some women over 30 years old to vote was added. But that wasn’t enough, men and women weren’t voting on equal terms, all men over 21 years old could, that's why suffragettes continued campaigning. Finally in 1928 men and women could vote on equal terms.

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"THE 1913 EPSOM DERBY"

The Epsom Derby is an annual English horse race held in Surrey. This event is very popular and is also watched by the kings of the United Kingdom. In 1913 a tragic incident occurred, Emily Davidson was run over by a horse. This woman was a British activist who fought for women's right to vote. She was arrested several times for causing public disturbance. In addition, she decided to go on hunger strike and resist force-feeding. Emily was part of the suffragette movement. The morning of the race she hid two suffragettes flags folded in the back of her jacket. During the race, she ran out confidently into the middle of the racecourse holding the suffragette flag. Nevertheless, one of the horsemen was running towards her and consequently ran her over. She suffered severe injuries leading her to death four days later.

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Hunger strike was used as a way of demonstration for many suffragettes, after they were sentenced to long sentences for minor offences such as protesting, resisting arrest, or smashing a window. However, after the Cat and the Mouse act of 1913 (which theoretically was issued to solve this problem), many women were forced to eat.  An important Lady (Lady Constance Lytton) disguised as a poor women to gather evidence of this fact. The next statement was collected: "Lytton was held down by wardresses as the doctor inserted a four-foot-long tube down her throat. A few seconds after the tube was down, she vomitted all over her hair, her clothes and the wall, yet the task continued until all the liquid had been emptied into her stomach. As the doctor left ‘he gave me a slap on the cheek". After it was found out that she was an important lady in the city, this activity was forbidden to be carried out to women.