List of suffragists and suffragettes explained

This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize – their goals. Suffragists and suffragettes, often members of different groups and societies, used or use differing tactics. Australians called themselves "suffragists" during the nineteenth century while the term "suffragette" was adopted in the earlier twentieth century by some British groups after it was coined as a dismissive term in a newspaper article.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] "Suffragette" in the British or Australian usage can sometimes denote a more "militant" type of campaigner,[6] while suffragists in the United States organized such nonviolent events as the Suffrage Hikes, the Woman Suffrage Procession of 1913, the Silent Sentinels, and the Selma to Montgomery march. US and Australian activists most often preferred to be called suffragists, though both terms were occasionally used.[7]

Africa

Egypt

Nigeria

South Africa

Asia

China

India

Indonesia

Iran

Japan

Jordan

Philippines

Yishuv

Australia and Oceania

Australia

See main article: List of Australian suffragists.

New Zealand

See main article: List of New Zealand suffragists.

Europe

Austria

Belgium

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czechia

Denmark

See main article: List of Danish suffragists.

Finland

France

See main article: List of French suffragists.

Georgia

Germany

See main article: List of German suffragists.

Greece

Hungary

Ireland

See main article: List of Irish suffragists and suffragettes.

Italy

Liechtenstein

Malta

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Serbia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

United Kingdom

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The University of Melbourne . Suffragists - Theme - The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia . 2023-03-29 . www.womenaustralia.info . en-gb.
  2. Book: Wright, Clare Alice . You daughters of freedom : the Australians who won the vote and inspired the world . 2018 . 978-1-925603-93-4 . Melbourne, Vic. . 1037809229.
  3. Web site: Kratz . Jessie . 2019-05-14 . What is Suffrage? . 2023-03-29 . Pieces of History . en-US.
  4. 2015-10-22 . Everything You Need to Know About the Word 'Suffragette' . 2023-03-29 . Time . en.
  5. Web site: 2020-08-18 . How the Term 'Suffragette' Evolved from Its Sexist Roots . 2023-03-29 . Harper's BAZAAR . en-US.
  6. Web site: Suffragist/Suffragette - What's the difference? . 2023-03-20 . Government of South Australia - Office for Women . en-AU.
  7. Web site: Did You Know? Suffragist vs Suffragette . 2023-03-20 . U.S. National Park Service . en.
  8. [Gambo Sawaba]
  9. Web site: BiafraNigeriaWorld: Platform Shorten Link Terpercaya di Indonesia . 2024-07-27 . BiafraNigeriaWorld: Platform Shorten Link Terpercaya di Indonesia . id.
  10. [Wuraola Esan]
  11. Web site: Huygens, Cornélie Lydie (1848–1902) . 23 November 2014 . Huygens ING.
  12. News: The suffragettes weren't just white, middle-class women throwing stones. Jackson. Sarah. 12 October 2015. The Guardian. 22 February 2018.
  13. News: UK | 75 years of women solicitors . BBC News . 19 December 1997 . 28 February 2018.
  14. Web site: Maud Crofts: "We women want not privileges but equality." – First 100 Years. first100years.org.uk. 5 July 2016 .
  15. News: Briscoe . Kim . Call for public's help to piece together life of Norfolk suffragette Caprina Fahey . 9 July 2020 . Eastern Daily Press . 2 November 2017 . en . 3 October 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191003221806/https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/call-for-public-s-help-to-piece-together-life-of-norfolk-suffragette-caprina-fahey-1-5262750 . dead .
  16. Web site: Former Mayors of the City of Lancaster . Lancaster City Council . 11 March 2020.
  17. Book: Krista Cowman. Women in British Politics, c.1689–1979. 9 December 2010. Palgrave Macmillan. 978-1-137-26801-3. 63–.
  18. Book: Graham Neville. Radical Churchman: Edward Lee Hicks and the New Liberalism. 1998. Clarendon Press. 978-0-19-826977-9. 165–.
  19. https://eastendwomensmuseum.org/blog/adelaide-knight-leader-of-the-first-east-london-suffragettes Adelaide Knight, leader of the first east London suffragettes – East End Women's Museum
  20. Book: Diane Atkinson. Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes. 8 February 2018. Bloomsbury Publishing. 978-1-4088-4406-9. 578–.
  21. News: Obituary: Victoria Lidiard. The Independent. Bella. Hoffman. 19 October 1992.
  22. Web site: MRS Annie Seymour Pearson / Database - Women's Suffrage Resources.
  23. Web site: Photograph of Indian suffragettes on the Women's Coronation Procession, 17 June 1911 at Museum of London . Museumoflondonprints.com . 17 June 1911 . 26 February 2018 . 27 February 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180227035358/http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image/79116/photograph-of-indian-suffragettes-on-the-womens-coronation-procession-17-june-1911 . dead .
  24. News: Izzy Lyons . Lolita Roy – the woman who simultaneously fought for British and Indian female suffrage . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/lolita-roy-woman-simultaneously-fought-british-indian-female/ . 12 January 2022 . subscription . live . The Telegraph . 26 February 2018 . Telegraph.co.uk . 26 February 2018.
  25. Lassalle . Beatriz . September 1949 . Biografía de Rosario Bellber González Por la Profesora Beatriz Lassalle . Revista, Volume 8, Issue 5 . La Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico . 149, 158 . Spanish.
  26. Encyclopedia: Quién es Quién en Puerto Rico . Diccionario Biográfico De Record Personal . Cantero Fernández & Co. . San Juan, Puerto Rico . 1942 . Asenjo . Conrado . Third edition 1941-42 . 33 . Spanish.
  27. Web site: 15 March 2019 . Rosario Bellber González: maestra, sufragista y espiritista kardeciana Sandra A. Enríquez Seiders . 19 April 2022 . Revista Cruce . Spanish.
  28. Book: Krüger Torres, Lola . Enciclopedia Grandes Mujeres de Puerto Rico, Vol. IV . 1975 . Ramallo Bros. Printing, Inc. . Hato Rey, Puerto Rico . 273–274 . Spanish.
  29. Robinson [née Wilkie], Annot Erskine [Annie] . Robinson [née Wilkie&#93;, Annot Erskine [Annie&#93; (1874–1925) – suffragist and pacifist |year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/48529 |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 |access-date=26 February 2018}}</ref><ref name="dundeewomenstrail1">{{cite web|url=http://www.dundeewomenstrail.org.uk/wilkie-annot-robinson-socialist-suffragette-wilkie-helen-socialist-suffragette/ |title=Wilkie, Annot (Robinson) – Socialist, Suffragette Wilkie, Helen – Socialist, Suffragette &#124; Dundee Women's Trail |publisher=Dundeewomenstrail.org.uk |date=18 January 2013 |access-date=26 February 2018}}</ref> * [[Rona Robinson]] (1881–1973) – suffragette and in 1905 the first woman in the United Kingdom to gain a first-class degree in chemistry

    North America

    Bahamas

    Barbados

    • Nellie Weekes (1896–1990) – campaigner for women's involvement in politics, who ran for office in 1942, before women were allowed to vote in the country

    Canada

    • Edith Archibald (1854–1936) – writer who led the Maritime Women's Christian Temperance Union and the National Council of Women of Canada and the Local Council of Women of Halifax
    • Francis Marion Beynon (1884–1951) – Canadian journalist, feminist and pacifist
    • Laura Borden (1861–1940) – wife of Sir Robert Laird Borden, the eighth Prime Minister of Canada
    • Henrietta Muir Edwards (1849–1931) – women's rights activist and reformer
    • Helena Gutteridge (1879–1960) – first woman elected to city council in Vancouver
    • Gertrude Harding (1889–1977) – one of the highest-ranking and longest-lasting members of the Women's Social and Political Union
    • Anna Leonowens (1831–1915) – travel writer, educator and social activist
    • Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (1864–1922) – writer; president, Women's Suffrage Association of Nelson, British Columbia
    • Nellie McClung (1873–1951) – politician, author, social activist, member of The Famous Five
    • Sarah Galt Elwood McKee (1842–1934) – social reformer and temperance leader
    • Louise McKinney (1868–1931) – politician, women's rights activist, Alberta legislature
    • Emily Murphy (1868–1933) – women's rights activist, jurist, author
    • Irene Parlby (1868–1965) – women's farm leader, activist, politician
    • Eliza Ritchie (1856–1933) – educator and member of the executive of the Local Council of Women of Halifax
    • Octavia Ritchie (1868–1948) – physician
    • Emily Stowe (1831–1903) – doctor, campaigned for the country's first medical college for women
    • Jennie Fowler Willing (1834–1916) – educator, author, preacher, social reformer, suffragist
    • Thérèse Forget Casgrain (1896–1981) – leader of the Quebec suffragist movement

    El Salvador

    Haiti

    • Yvonne Sylvain (1907–1989) – first female doctor from Haiti and advocate for gender equality

    Honduras

    Iceland

    Mexico

    Nicaragua

    • Josefa Toledo de Aguerri, also called Josefa Emilia Toledo Murillo (1866–1962) – Nicaraguan feminist, writer and reform pedagogue

    Panama

    • Elida Campodónico (1894–1960) – teacher, women's rights advocate, attorney, first woman ambassador in Latin America
    • Clara González (1898–1990) – feminist, lawyer, judge, and activist
    • Gumercinda Páez (1904–1991) – teacher, women's rights activist and suffragette, and Constituent Assemblywoman of Panama

    Puerto Rico

    • Isabel Andreu de Aguilar (1887–1948) – educator, helped establish the Puerto Rican Feminist League, was president of Puerto Rican Association of Women Suffragists, and first woman to run for Senate in PR
    • Rosario Bellber González (1881–1948) - educator, social worker, women's rights activist, suffragist, and philanthropist; president of the Social League of Suffragists of Puerto Rico (Spanish: La Liga Social Sufragista (LSS) de Puerto Rico)[25] [26] [27] [28]
    • Milagros Benet de Mewton (1868–1948) – teacher who filed a lawsuit to press for suffrage
    • Carlota Matienzo (1881–1926) – teacher, one of the founders of the Puerto Rican Feminine League and the Suffragist Social League
    • Felisa Rincón de Gautier (1897–1994) – mayor of San Juan, first woman to hold post of mayor of a capitol city in the Americas

    Trinidad

    United States

    See main article: List of American suffragists.

    United States Virgin Islands

    • Bertha C. Boschulte (1906–2004) – Secretary of the St. Thomas Teacher's Association, which sued for women's suffrage in the territory in 1935
    • Edith L. Williams (1887–1987) – first woman to attempt to register to vote in the US Virgin Islands

    South America

    Argentina

    • Cecilia Grierson (1859–1934) – the first woman physician in Argentina; supporter of women's emancipation, including suffrage
    • Julieta Lanteri (1873–1932) – physician, freethinker, and activist; the first woman to vote in Argentina
    • Alicia Moreau de Justo (1885–1986) – physician, politician, pacifist and human rights activist
    • Eva Perón (1919–1952) – First Lady of Argentina, created the first large female political party in the nation
    • Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane (1867–1954) – physician, activist for women's and children's rights; co-founder of the Association Pro-Derechos de la Mujer

    Brazil

    Chile

    • Celinda Arregui (1864–1941) – feminist politician, writer, teacher, suffrage activist
    • María de la Cruz (1912-1995) – political activist, journalist, writer, political commentator, first woman elected to the Chilean senate
    • Henrietta Müller (1846–1906) – Chilean-British women's rights activist and theosophist
    • Marta Vergara (1898–1995) – co-founder of MEMch; Inter-American Commission of Women delegate

    Colombia

    • Lucila Rubio de Laverde (1908–1970) – co-founder of the suffrage organizations, Unión Femenina de Colombia (Women's Union of Colombia) (UFC) and the Alianza Femenina de Colombia (Women's Alliance of Colombia)
    • María Currea Manrique (1890–1985) – co-founder of the suffrage organizations, Unión Femenina de Colombia (Women's Union of Colombia) (UFC) and the Alianza Femenina de Colombia (Women's Alliance of Colombia)

    Peru

    Uruguay

    • Paulina Luisi Janicki (1875–1949) – leader of the feminist movement in Uruguay, first Uruguayan woman to earn a medical degree in Uruguay (1909)

    Venezuela

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