Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emily Davies, Emmeline Pankhurst and her children, Mary Richardson Barbara Bodichon and many others helped bring about suffrage.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was an English physician and feminist, the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain. She was elected mayor of Aldeburgh in 1908 and gave speeches for suffrage.[5]
Emmeline Pankhurst was an important figure in the women's movement because of her participation in numerous organizations. Emmeline Goulden was married to a lawyer who supported women suffrage ideas since he was the author of the first British woman suffrage bill and the Married Women’s Property Acts in 1870 and 1882. After her husband’s death, Emmeline decided to take a stand and come out into the limelight with the support of her daughters, Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst, by joining the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). With her experience with this organization, later, Emmeline founded the Women’s Franchise League in 1889 and the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903.[6] After many years her and other women's efforts paid off and women gained suffrage but Emmeline died shortly after this.[7]
A reformer, feminist, and suffragist named Millicent Fawcett was also important to the women's suffrage movement in Britain. She had a peaceful approach to issues presented to the organizations and the way to get points across to society. She supported the Married Women’s Property Act and the social purity campaign. Two events influenced her to become even more involved: her husband’s death and the division of the suffrage movement. Millicent made sure that the parts separated came together to become stronger by working together. Because of her actions, she was made president of the NUWSS. In 1910-1912, she supported a bill to give vote rights to single and widowed females of a household. By supporting the British in World War I, she thought women would be recognized as a prominent part of Europe and deserved basic rights such as voting.[8]
Emily Davies, became an editor of a feminist publication, Englishwoman’s Journal. She expressed her feminist ideas on paper and was also a major supporter and influential figure during the twentieth century. In addition to suffrage, she supported more rights for women such as access to education. She wrote works and had power with words. She wrote texts such as Thoughts on Some Questions Relating to Women in 1910 and Higher Education for Women in 1866. She was a large supporter in the times where organizations were trying to reach people for a change.[9] With her, was a friend named Barbara Bodichon who also published articles and books such as Women and Work (1857), Enfranchisement of Women (1866), and Objections to the Enfranchisement of Women (1866), and American Diary in 1872.[10]
1869 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton tapo pirmąja moterimi, kalbėjusia apie balsavimo teisę moterims, JAV Kongreso svarstymuose
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