One of the earliest women to " make a serious impact upon the world of professional scholarship ," she was also an ardent feminist, being actively involved in the Suffragette movement.

Still living in his parent's home, he began dressing in unconventional and flamboyant garb, and became popular with other students at the college, with a particularly strong friendship developing between Spare and Sylvia Pankhurst, a prominent Suffragette and leftist campaigner.

Boyle is the birthplace of actress Maureen O ' Sullivan, writer Patrick Chapman, Suffragette and women's rights campaigner Margaret Cousins, physician Robert Cryan, and hometown of actor

#" Suffragette City " ( from Ziggy Stardust, 1972 ) – 3: 25

Two years later he clashed with Asquith in the House of Commons over the issue of women's suffrage and resigned his seat in order to stand in a by-election in support of the Suffragette movement.

Glynis Johns ( born 5 October 1923 ) is a South African-born Welsh stage and film actress, dancer, pianist and singer ( notably of " Send in the Clowns ", which she originated in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, and " Sister Suffragette " which was written for her for Walt Disney's musical motion picture, Mary Poppins written by the Sherman Brothers ).

In a January 2010 BBC documentary, Mother Was A Blackshirt, James Maw reported on how in 1914 Norah Elam was placed in a Holloway prison cell with Emmeline Pankhurst for her involvement with the Suffragette movement, yet in 1940 she returned to the same prison with Diana Mosley, but this time for her involvement with the fascist movement.

The paper was started by Mary Patterson, Zelie Emerson, and Sylvia Pankhurst ( after she had been expelled from the Suffragette movement by her mother and sister ) on behalf of the East London Federation of Suffragettes.

" Dacre Fox perhaps further summed up the frustrations of the WSPU with the Church leaders in her statement recorded in the Suffragette after an interview with the Archbishop of Canterbury in January 1914 that, " The only feeling ( she ) experienced …… while she was interviewing the Archbishop of Canterbury ... was “ utter contempt ”... Mrs Dacre Fox said that the Archbishop's Chaplain was “ a pitiable object, trembling and with chattering teeth ”, and later was also reported to have said that, " I can only say that as I sat looking at that old man, the feeling which was uppermost in my mind was that of contempt …. I wondered if Calvary had almost been in vain.

Mrs. Garrud established her own jujutsu dojo ( school ) in London and also taught the art to members of the militant Suffragette movement, establishing an early association between self defence training and the political philosophy of feminism.

Holiday had been a socialist throughout his life and, together with his wife Kate and daughter Winifred, supported the Suffragette movement.

This was summed up on the front page of the Suffragette of 13 February 1913 which carried an artistic impression of a woman being force fed above a statement ( repeated and expanded in an inside article ) " A whitewash brush, my Lord Bishop, has been placed in your hand by the authorities in order that the public shall still remain in ignorance of the diabolical methods used by the Government in their desire to terrorise the militant women.

Sylvia Pankhurst contributed articles to the WSPU's newspaper, Votes for Women, and in 1911 she published a propagandist history of the WSPU's campaign, The Suffragette: The History of the Women ’ s Militant Suffrage Movement.

Women wrote about how the experience made them feel in letters, diaries, speeches and suffrage publications, including Votes for Women and The Suffragette.

However, the start of the war in August 1914, and the ending of all Suffragette activities for the duration of the war, meant that the full potential impact of the ' Cat and Mouse Act ' will never be known.

* Blue Plaque for Suffragette Leaders Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst

" This election was notable for both the attacks of the Suffragette movement on Churchill, over his refusal to support legislation that would give women the vote, and Jewish hostility to Joynson-Hicks over his support for the controversial Aliens Act.

The band recorded a cover of the David Bowie song Suffragette City for the New York Minute soundtrack.

Suffragette, Independent Labour and Co-operative activist Margaret McCoubrey in 1920 was elected a Labour councillor for the Dock ward of Belfast.

She joined the Women's Social and Political Union and actively campaigned for the Suffragette cause.

Firstly there was a cover of David Bowie's 1972 glam-rock classic " Suffragette City ", slightly renamed to " SufferRAGEette City " to fit in with the " Rage Hard " promotion.

Before women obtained the right to vote in 1920, Lillian Daley was an active Suffragette, participating in marches.

The only exception to this was in coverage by the Daily Mail newspaper, which referred to the discovery as a woman, but only to use it to mock the Suffragette movement of the time, of which the Mail was highly critical.

Among other things, the three-note bridge between " Ziggy Stardust " and " Suffragette City ", and the count-in to " Hang on to Yourself " are missing.

* Ethel Smyth-Composer and Suffragette.

He persuaded them to stay together and offered them " Suffragette City " from his then yet-to-be-released Ziggy Stardust album.

Oldham's social history, like that of other former unenfranchised towns, is marked by politicised civil disturbances, as well as events related to the Luddite, Suffragette and other Labour movements from the working classes.

Annie Kenney, born in nearby Springhead, and who worked in Oldham's cotton mills, was a notable member of the Suffragette movement credited with sparking off suffragette militancy when she heckled Winston Churchill, and later ( with Emmeline Pankhurst ) the first Suffragist to be imprisoned.

Norah Dacre Fox ( later known as Norah Elam ) led many of the deputations on behalf of the WSPU which were widely reported in The Suffragette.

New Women were active in the Suffragette movement and were disappointed by the emergence of the frivolous flapper in the 1920s.

The Suffragette appeared again on 16 April 1915 as a war paper and on 15 October changed its name to Britannia.

Britannia was many times raided by the police and experienced greater difficulty in appearing than had befallen The Suffragette.

When home in England, she is a strong supporter of and is occasionally involved in the Suffragette Movement.

As women took over traditional " men's jobs " the Suffragette movement gained momentum.

In addition to those mentioned in the text above, notable people born in Farnham include William Willett, campaigner for daylight saving time ( 1856 ); George Sturt, writer and social historian ( 1863 ); and Maud Gonne, feminist and activist in Irish politics ( 1866 ).

* November 18-Margaret Atwood, author, poet, critic, feminist and social campaigner

* Josephine Butler ( 1828 – 1906 ) was a feminist campaigner who led the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act was born in Milfield not far from Wooler, and retired to a house in Wooler in her final years.

Dora Black, Lady Russell ( 3 April 1894 – 31 May 1986 ) was a British author, a feminist and socialist campaigner, and the second wife of the eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell.

* Jackie Forster, actress, TV personality, feminist and lesbian campaigner

Hubertine Auclert ( April 10, 1848 – August 4, 1914 ) was a leading French feminist and a campaigner for women's suffrage.

Samira Bellil ( November 24, 1972-September 7, 2004 ) was a French feminist activist and a campaigner for the rights of girls and women.

She is noted for being an actress, a TV personality, a feminist and a lesbian campaigner.

Avedon Carol is an American-born feminist, anti-censorship, and civil liberties campaigner and a researcher in the field of sex crime, residing in England.

Others who have written for The Irish Press include the poet Patrick Kavanagh ; the broadcaster and journalist Vincent Browne, who was Northern Editor from 1970 to 1972 ; Damien Kiberd who was business editor ; his brother, Professor Declan Kiberd, was a columnist with The Irish Press from 1987 to 1993 ; the Catholic and feminist campaigner and journalist Mary Kenny ; sports writer and founder of GOAL John O ' Shea ; the novelist John Banville was a sub-editor, as was the poet Hugh McFadden ; the historian Dermot Keogh, and the Joycean critic Terence Killeen ; T. P.

Jessie Mary Grey Street ( née Lillingston ; born Chota Nagpur, Bihar, India, 18 April 1889 ; died 2 July 1970 ) was an Australian suffragette, feminist and human rights campaigner.

On 14 December 2005, it was announced that the college had been named after Josephine Butler, a Victorian feminist campaigner and a grand-niece of the 2nd Earl Grey, after whom Grey College was named.