suffragette

English

Statue of Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragette, Victoria Tower Gardens, Westminster

Statue of Millicent Garrett Fawcett, suffragette, Parliament Square, Westminster

From suffrage +‎ -ette, first used as a derisive label by the Daily Mail in 1906, but eventually adopted by the WSPU itself.^[1]

suffragette (plural suffragettes)

(historical) A female supporter, often militant, of women's right to vote in the early 20th century, especially in Great Britain.
Synonym: (general term) suffragist
- 2018 February 2, “Smashed windows, broken rules: the dark suffragette sites of London”, in The Guardian‎^[2], retrieved 2021-07-11:
  Perhaps no single location resonates for women’s rights campaigners today as much as Holloway, the first female-only prison, where militant suffragettes were incarcerated, went on hunger strike and were savagely force-fed.

female supporter of women's right to vote

^ “‘Suffragette’ Has a History of Its Own”, in The New York Times‎^[1], 1995 February 22, →ISSN

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