General Chat

....chatting to the girls about the Womens Suffrage movement. Can't remember how the subject arose now but eldest especially was aghast that 100 years ago women were denied the vote.

How lovely it is now to be able to google and you tube and show them all the info and clips at the touch of a button....

Makes me really appreciate the www despite all it's faults....you can really keep the fire of the thirst for knowledge burning on when you can produce results at the touch of a button.

They DID pay a bit too much morbid attention to poor Emily Wilder Davison though.I have to admit....had to pull the plug on that after the 2nd slow motion re run lol xx

Women's suffrage is one of my favourite topics, and I have nothing but respect and admiration for them all.

In fact, that was my 'O' level history project, and as luck would have it, there was a series called 'The Suffragettes' on TV at the time, which made my life a lot easier lol.

They went to hell and back to get us the vote, so we should use it, I think.

Yeah I did a project in juniors on Emmeline Pankhurst. I was probably about the same age as eldest now I think about it. It certainly captured my imagination.

I'm still undecided as to whether they'd have achieved it so soon had the first world war not forced the issue...but like you....my respect knows no bounds.

I've always voted...and always will.....and made a point of stressing to the girls how important it is to respect the memory and actions of those brave women and USE the gift they gave usxx

I'm with you there, the war showed that women are more than capable of public responsibility...and they probably wouldn't have got it quite so soon had it not been for that. Also, the government of the day wanted the country united....and that threatened that unity, such was the depth of feeling and the lengths these women were prepared to go to, and the size of the movement.

I always secretly hoped I'd find a suffragette (or not in reality) on the 1911...but so far.....they're all present and correct lol xx

Yep, same here...though there is a very distant rellie who was one, and married to a famous artist who has since been linked to the Ripper murders....but it's soooooo distant it's not really mine if you know what I mean.

ooooo that's interesting !!!! I haven't even got something distantly juicy in mine lol xx

Teresa,
is that the Patricia Cornwell theory/book?

Yes it is Maggie...nobody thought of it before her lol.

It was Emma Cobden, daughter of Richard Cobden, and she was married to Walter Sickert the artist.

I have a copy of her divorce papers, by all accounts, he was a wife beater and womaniser....poor woman.

Very distantly related to my branch though...