British Depth Study 1890-1918 Liberal Reforms What were the living and social conditions like in the 1890s? Living conditions: * Towns became overcrowded. * People lived in slums‚ often whole families lived in one room. * No internal water supplies. * Shared outside toilets. * Limited electricity‚ wealthy families were starting to get it. * Larger families but higher infant mortality. * Very limited birth control‚ moral distaste. * Church taught contraception
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Medical Branch in Galveston.After she graduated‚ her pharmacy career started‚but during her work period she realized that her pay was less than half of what her male coworkers made and in this experience is when she credited it with “making a suffragette out of me‚” and once she married B.J. Cunningham in 1902‚ her medical career came to an end. Six years after her pharmacy career came to an end she first became politically
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inequality. The Suffragists‚ led by Millicent Fawcett negotiated and gave speeches‚ whilst their opposites the Suffragettes used violence to get their way. To control this militant band of women the Government put into place the Cat and Mouse Act. When war broke out in 1914‚ thousands of women were sacked from their jobs. They wanted work and they wanted to help the war effort. Suffragettes promised to stop all militant action because they realised the war was more important. However the trade unions
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society‚ although power and prestige was still controlled by men. However in 1903 a radical organisation was formed called the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). Emmeline Pankhurst led it and its members were named suffragettes. Throughout the protesting some suffragettes broke the law and were imprisoned. Men were reluctant to give women the right to vote‚ because they feared the loss of control over women. Most men believed that women were incapable of understanding the process of voting
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The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Great Britain was conceived in 1832‚ when the Great Reform Act was passed which specified that only “male persons” were allowed to vote. The efforts gained momentum in the early 1900s with the founding of Suffrage Societies such as the Women’s Social and Political Union and the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. The movement ended in 1928‚ when women gained the right to vote through the Representational People Act‚ which allowed women over the age of twenty-one
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married to householders. This came after sixty years of campaigning by suffrage groups. The women’s suffrage movement was a powerful political force by 1914. There were 56 suffrage groups and two main national bodies – the Suffragists (NUWSS) and the Suffragettes (WSPU). How far the women’s suffrage movement was responsible for women being granted the vote needs to be judged against other important factors such as the First World War‚ political changes and changes in other countries. By 1914‚ there
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is very unhappy with the repetitive life she lives in the Bottoms as a stay-at-home wife and wishes for something more to fulfill her. This thought was common for many women at the time this novel was written as soon after came the Suffragette movement. The Suffragettes were a group of women who fought for equal rights between men and women. Mrs. Morel narrates throughout how if she were a man “nothing would stop me”. Critics envision that is
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by a quote from Lucy Wray of the ‘New History’ who quoted “It is estimated that in 1913-14‚ the WSPU caused damages approximately between £1 and £2 million.” (4) These quotes clearly illustrate the ill effects of the violence so beloved by the Suffragette campaigners‚ caused their violent means to be met by violent
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Throughout history‚ women have struggled for equality in all parts of the world. European women fought for suffrage for an extremely long period of time before they were granted full voting rights. Each country approved women’s suffrage at different times‚ but it occurred in most European countries in the early 20th century. The first country to develop universal suffrage was Finland in the year 1906(“Women’s Suffrage in Europe”). One of the last countries to become open about women’s voting rights
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defeated‚ as like the Third Reform Bill of 1884‚ it was their strategies that first brought the need for franchise to the fore‚ agitating the need for the need for suffrage. In 1905‚ a huge meeting was held in protest of this act‚ and since then‚ the Suffragettes began employing more vicious strategies like heckling government ministers‚ breaking windows and initiating hunger strikes in prison amongst other terrible things. The New Book of Knowledge(Vol. 7.‚ p 3330). Not all women from the movement believed
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