Suffragists Vs Suffragettes

In this essay I will be describing the different methods which both the suffragists (the NUWSS) and the suffragettes (the WSPU) used during their suffrage campaigns. I will also be describing how successful they were in these methods and if they weren't successful, what went wrong for them. I shall begin by describing the NUWSS. The NUWSS (the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies) was formed in 1897 and was led by Millicent Fawcett. They were the first of the two organizations to begin, and throughout their time of running they brought in around 500,000 supporters with a total annual income of around £45,000. They ran a newspaper named ‘The Common Cause' and kept in contact with other suffragist organizations, as well as the
A women's suffrage private members bill was ‘talked out' on purpose (when MP's ague over whether the bill should become part of the law until there isn't enough time for it to be made a law). The WSPU saw 40 years of non-violent protests go down the drain, and opted for some physical action. Violence also got suffragettes lots more advertising and it also got worse and worse every time a bill did not become an Act. After that, the suffragettes used more physical and psychological actions, as they began to heckle government ministers, they constructed mass rallies and they performed raids to various places. One of the consequences was gaol, as Christabel Pankhurst soon found out, as she was the first suffragette to go to prison in 1905. In the years 1908 and 1909, new tactics were created and were used worldwide. The first couple in 1908 included such things as chaining themselves together and becoming much more violent (e.g. fighting back to police). In 1909 they started hunger strikes, where in prison they would not eat and try to kill themselves for their cause (martyrdom). To stop this from happening, the jail guards held open the prisoner's mouths' with metal and put a tube down their throat and pump food
They treated them as they would treat the suffragists; lock them up in gaol and never look back. This was a grave mistake as soon enough, they rose and became more powerful than any other organization ever. The WSPU did separate slightly as well, for various reasons including the ones given by members of suffragists. Those with families wanted to be with them, and some stopped protesting after and during the war as they wanted to prove themselves in work. They thought that as they work, they'd be taken more seriously to become independent women. Their tactics did go to an extreme in 1912, however, as they began to smash windows, burn railway stations, defaced work of art, poured acid into post-boxes, threw pepper in Parliament and even tried to blow up the coronation chair. They did succeed in Martyrdom, though, as Emily Davidson threw herself underneath the King's horse at the Derby and was killed. She was the first martyr of the