... was going nowhere. They argued that although women's suffrage had been discussed in Parliament fifteen times by 1900, the vote had always been lost. The WSPU believed that the campaign for women's suffrage needed to be more forceful and the ...

... never known in England, or for that matter in any other country...we interrupted a great many meetings...and we were violently thrown out and insulted. Often we were painfully bruised and hurt." "Suffragettes" was the name given to those women who used ...

... becoming too much of a distant target. In 1903 Emmeline Pankhurst set about demanding the vote by more vocal means. There was to be an election in 1905/1906 meaning candidates were in need of persuading. Thus heralded the arrival of ...

... afford to send his children away to be educated. So instead of having wonderful oratory Millicent impressed her audience with her intellect. These very different backgrounds meant very different ways of leading these groups. When Fawcett was 12 years old her ...

... women were going to remain in that class until they lifted themselves out of it. I asked myself many times, what was to be done." That is an extract from a speech she made in 1913. She was tired of ...

... would be carried out "without violence, without killing people and blowing up buildings and doing the other silly things that men have done when they wanted the laws altered." However, in 1903 many women believed that after 50 years of ...

... they put forward a male member to compete with the liberal politicians. Another example of their non violence was in 1905 when Emily Davies went to the House of Commons accompanied by ten other women with a petition. They were ...

... male candidates for election, so he could stand against the liberal politicians. This took a lot of votes from other parties. 3,000 women took part in a Mud March, which was for Hyde Park to The Strand. They had brass ...

... emerge such as the suffragettes. In comparison to suffragist there were suffragettes who used violent methods because their leader Emmeline Pankhurst thought by this way it would attract the attention of the public and the media, so they could hear ...

... these peaceful methods would show men how sensible, intelligent and capable they were of using the vote wisely. The campaign was slow and patient, but because of the sheer number of supporters from all walks of life, all over the ...

... Mill was President for some years in the 1860s and had insisted that the secretary of the society should be a married woman. This contrasted with the approach taken in the WSPU where there was less concern with femininity and ...

... legal protest and she felt that violence or trouble would convince men that women could not be trusted to have the right to vote. Many of the suffragists had links with the Liberal party as many members were wives, mothers ...

... out which the suffragettes thought was not working well and thought it was working too slowly. The two groups methods were completely different to each other because one group approached a peaceful methods and the other group approached more directly ...

... out which the suffragettes thought was not working well and thought it was working too slowly. The two groups methods were completely different to each other because one group approached a peaceful methods and the other group approached more directly ...

... NUWSS decided that the only way to get their point across was to perform legal actions in the forms of non-violent protesting and petitioning. They thought in order for women's equality, they needed to educate women and that peaceful methods ...

... husband told them to. They planned to use the strength of their argument as their main point of persuasion. A famous quote from Mrs Fawcett was that the campaign was like a glacier in that it was slow but unstoppable, ...

... and able to make informed decisions as men. They tried to get MPs to join their cause by polite persuasion and asking questions. This was the main group and they were not as radical as the Suffragettes. Many felt let ...

... or even daily where they would discuss what was happening. Women who joined the societies were trained as speakers for the cause and some were even paid to organize the campaigning in their area. Talents were used to the full; ...

... Fawcett. She had served for the NUWSS for many years, and in her years there, before and after she wrote several books, including Janet Doncaster (1875), The Women's Victory and After (1919), What I Remember (1924), and Easter in Palestine ...

... out of the meeting and arrested. Instead of paying a fine, they both chose to go to jail, to draw attention to their cause. This then became a common tactic of the suffragettes. Over the years, their violence got worse, ...

... to accept the money; for the suffragettes this was an excellent way to attract attention. The Suffragettes were run like a dictatorship by Emmeline Pankhurst and all orders were taken from her; the main branch was totally controlled by her, ...

... point across. Due to this the NUWSS did not want to be associated with the violence and this caused the two groups to split in 1912. There were a number of different methods that the two groups used however many of ...

... of women's voting right. However at this early stage of women's suffrage there were many splits inside the suffrage society and many believe that the suffragists did not fully start campaigning till later. By the time they came together in ...

... back their cause. However, some Suffragists wanted to improve social and political conditions for women too, and formed the WSPU. Their movement was born of frustration and they decided to take direct action in order to gain publicity, which would get ...

... law so that women could have the right to vote. He then called an election, so the plan was abandoned. This infuriated the suffragettes, and this was a key turning point in their methods. They decided that much more radical ...