Suffragette (15 page)

1869
House-owning women gain the right to vote in local elections.

1871–1883
Private members’ bills for women’s suffrage are presented to every year without success.

1897
National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) formed, with Millicent Fawcett as president.

1903
Pankhursts and others launch the Women’s Suffrage and Political Union (WSPU) in Manchester. They break away from traditional
campaigning methods used by previous societies.

1905
Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney are arrested outside the Free Trade Hall. Votes for Women becomes headline news.

1906
October: Ten WSPU members are arrested outside the House of Commons.

1907
WSPU publish their newspaper,
Votes for Women
.

1909
Marjorie Wallace Dunlop becomes the first suffragette to go on hunger strike.

1909
Conciliation Committee formed to draft a woman’s suffrage bill (the Conciliation Bill). WSPU calls a truce. Between 1910 and 1912
three bills are drafted and debated. All are defeated.

1910
Black Friday: police assault women following a rush on the House of Commons.

1911
WSPU become increasingly militant following the failure of the Conciliation Bill.

1912
Police raid WSPU headquarters and arrest the leadership. Christabel escapes to France.

1913
April: The Prisoner’s Temporary Discharge for Ill Health Act, nicknamed the Cat-and-Mouse Act is rushed through Parliament.

1913
June: Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison dies from injuries.

1918
The Representation of the People Act gives the vote to all women over 30 who are householders or wives of householders; occupiers of
property with an annual rent of £45 or over and graduates of British universities. These changes give more than 8.4 million British women the right to vote.

1928
All women over 21 gain the vote, irrespective of property qualifications.

While the events described and some of the characters in this book may be based on actual historical events and real people, Dollie Baxter is a fictional character, created by
the author, and her diary is a work of fiction.

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