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Hannah Mitchell was born on 11 february 1872 and she died on 22 october 1956 when she was 84 years old. She was British and she was an English suffragette and socialist. Born into a poor family in Derbyshire, she left home at a young age to work as a seamstress in Bolton, where she became a socialist. She began to speak publicly at meetings. She joined and worked for the WSPU. She toured the country making speeches. (Later, she helped to organise a meeting of 40 ex-suffragettes in Manchester). She was charged with obstruction and went to prison for three days. In 1907, she suffered a nervous breakdown which her doctor put down to overwork and malnourishment. In 1918, the Representation of the People Act gave the right to vote to 40% of women.

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She was born in 1881 . She was a British artist and author . She was a land Girl during  the great War.

Olive joined the suffragette movement in 1913 . In 1913 , she participated in an arson attack on the Roehampton golf club and on a house at Walton Heath belonging to Lloyd George.

Olive has received  a four-month sentence because the police suspected her .

In the film Suffragettes, we can see Ellyn preparing the arson attack on the house of Lloyd George.

Emily is one of the most popular suffragette. She was arrested on 9 occasions for her millitancy.

She is probably one of the suffragette who bombed Lloyd George’s house in 1913. She attacked a man with a whip when she mistook him for David Lloyd George. Her last millitant act took place at Epsom Derby in June 1913. She ran in front of the king’s horse and was subsequently trampled by it. She died a few days later.

Davidson’s true intentions have deen debated, some feel she wanted to become a martyr, others believe she only wanted to place the suffragettes’ Colors of purple white and green on  the king’s horse . But there is no definitive answer.

Her death was a watershed moment for suffragettes. Their movement gained worldwide attention and 6000 women turned out for the funeral.

Women and men finally obtained the same rights in United Kingdom in 1928.

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The suffragette Edith Margaret Garrud was born on 1872 in Bath. Her husband was William Garrud. She became a suffragette in 1909 and she often suffered harassment  and attacks. She has been the first  professional woman in martial arts instruction probabely in the world. She created the martial arts « suffrajitsu » for suffragettes . She kept suffragette leaders safe and out of police custody. She trained the Bodyguards unit of the Woman’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). Women learned to defend her rights and techniques of self defense. She died on 1917 at the age of 99. The actress who plays Edith Garrud in the  film « Suffragette » is Bonham Carter.

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