Laura Ainsworth (1885–1958) – British teacher and suffragette
Leonora de Alberti (1870–1934) – English historian and suffragist, member of the Catholic Women’s Suffrage Society and editor of its journal The Catholic Suffragist[10]
Janie Allan (1868–1968) – Scottish suffragette activist and significant financial supporter of the WSPU; imprisoned for suffrage activities[16]
Doreen Allen (1879–1963) – English suffragette, member of the WSPU[14]
Mary Sophia Allen (1878–1964) – British women's rights activist, suffragette, and policewoman, member of the WSPU, was imprisoned and went on hunger strike, later involved in far-right political activity[17][18][19]
Minnie Baldock (c.1864 – 1954) – English suffragette, co-founded the first London branch of the WSPU in Canning Town, one of the first suffragettes to be arrested after trying to present a petition to the House of Commons[43][44]
Norah Balls (1886–1980) – British suffragette, women’s right campaigner, magistrate and councillor, co-founder of the Girl Guides movement in Northumberland[50]
Anna, Lady Barlow (1873–1965) – English Liberal Party politician, pacifist, suffragist and temperance activist
Catherine Isabella Barmby – English socialist and feminist writer, her 1843 tract The Demand for the Emancipation of Women, Politically and Socially was an early work arguing the case for women's enfranchisement[34]
Annie Barnes (1886–1982) – British-Italian socialist and suffragist, known as "Tough Annie"[51][52]
Harriette Beanland (born 1866) – British textile worker and suffragette, secretary to the Women's Labour League in Lancashire, signed the manifesto of the Independent Labour Party in favour of women's suffrage in 1906[61]
Marie Brackenbury (1866–1950) – British painter and suffragette, her home was known as "Mouse Castle" because it looked after recovering hunger strikers[88]
Millicent Browne (1881–1975) – British suffragette, pacifist and teacher,[97][98] nickname "Militant Browne"[99]
Constance Bryer (1870–1952) – British classical violinist and suffragette, member of the WSPU and the Church League for Women's Suffrage (CLWS), served four months in prison for breaking windows on London’s Regent Street[100]
Amy Bull (1877–1953) – British teacher, suffragist and tax resister, arrested on Black Friday[101]
Ellen Chapman – English suffragist and local politician, and the first woman councillor for Worthing, founder and president of the Worthing Women's Franchise Society, member of the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society, member of the NUWSS and member of the CUWFA
Jane Cobden (1851–1947) – Liberal politician who was active in many radical causes; treasurer for the NUWSS and co-founder of the Women's Franchise League (WFL)[126]
Leonora CohenEllen Melicent Cobden (1848–1914) – writer and activist who donated funds to the WSPU and participated in the Women’s Suffrage Procession, organized by the Women’s Freedom League[34]
Clara Codd – British writer, suffragette, socialist feminist and theosophist, member of the NUWSS then WSPU[127]
Leonora Cohen (1873–1978) – British militant suffragette and trade unionist; bodyguard for Emmeline Pankhurst[102]
Maria Colby – English suffragist; member of the Bristol and West of England Society for Women’s Suffrage and WSPU
Mary Collin (1860–1955) – English teacher and suffragist, chair of the Cardiff and District Women's Suffrage Society[128]
Florence Annie Conybeare (1872–1916) – British activist, campaigned in support of women's suffrage, organized a meeting of the NUWSS
Selina Cooper (1864–1946) – Suffragist, textile mill worker, local magistrate, member of the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage[129]
Catherine Corbett (1869–1950) – British suffragette; jailed and went on hunger strike[130]
Ethel Cox (born 1888) – British suffragette who smashed windows at the house of the home secretary
Isabel Cowe (1867–1931) – Scottish suffragist who helped organise the 400-mile Scottish Suffrage March from Edinburgh to Downing Street, London to present a petition for women's enfranchisement[134]
Annie Walker Craig (1864–1948) – British suffragette involved in rock-throwing and arson in England and Scotland[135]
Jessie Craigen (c.1835 – 1899) – British working-class suffragist who gave speeches across the country
Muriel Craigie (1889–1971) – Scottish suffragist, and wartime volunteer organiser[136]
Virginia Mary Crawford (1862–1948) – British Catholic suffragist, journalist and author, a co-founder of the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society[137]
Bessie Drysdale (1871–1950) – member of the WSPU's National Executive Committee, one of the 52 women arrested during a suffragette march to the House of Commons in 1907, and writer for the short lived radical feminist magazine The Freewoman (1911–1913)[165]
Emily Duval (1860–1924) – English suffragette, member of the WSPU and WFL, participant in the "Grille Incident", mother of Elsie Duval[170]
Una Duval (1879–1975) – suffragette and marriage reformer, co-founded The Suffragette Fellowship (an organisation to preserve the memory of the militant suffrage struggle),[171] married to Victor Duval
Amy Dillwyn – Welsh novelist, businesswoman, suffragist and social benefactor; member of the NUWSS[173]
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Florence Earengey (1877–1963) – British suffragette involved in multiple suffrage organisations; in charge of literature for the Cheltenham branch of the NUWSS[174]
Louise Eates (1877–1944) – suffragette, chair of Kensington Women's Social and Political Union and a women's education activist[175]
Gertrude Eaton (1864–1940) – Welsh singer and suffragist
Maude Edwards (fl. 1914) – Scottish suffragette who was force-fed in prison despite having a heart condition[176]
Norah Elam (1878–1961) – British suffragette, anti-vivisectionist and prominent member of the WSPU; imprisoned three times[177]
Margaret Milne Farquharson (1884–c. 1936) – Scottish suffragette, member of the WFL, MP candidate and leader of the National Political League campaigning for Palestine[186]
Florence Feek (1876–1940) – British suffragette and Post Office worker[195]
Ada Flatman (1876–1952) – English suffragette, employed by the WSPU to organise their activities in Liverpool
Lettice Floyd (1865–1934) – British suffragette, set up a Berkswell outpost of the Birmingham Women's Suffrage Society and later a full-time paid organiser of the WSPU, imprisoned and went on hunger strike[196]
Theresa Garnett (1888–1966) – British suffragette and member of the WSPU, attacked the President of the Board of Trade and chained herself to a statue in the Houses of Parliament[19][203]
Edith Garrud (1872–1971) – British martial artist and suffragette, first trainer of "the Bodyguard," formed in response to the Cat and Mouse Act[102][204]
Katharine Gatty in her prison uniform in 1913Katharine Gatty (1870–1952) – British journalist, lecturer, nurse and militant suffragette, member of the WSPU[205]
Margaret Gibb in a Home Office police surveillance photograph of 1914Mary Gawthorpe (1881–1973) – English socialist, trade unionist, editor, active in the suffrage movement in both England and the United States[206]
Helga Gill (1885–1928) – Norwegian-born British suffragist who spoke at meetings[208]
Edith Gittins – English artist and social reformer, ounder of the Leicester Women’s Liberal Association in 1886 and supported the Leicester Women’s Suffrage Society
Frances Gordon (born c.1874) – British suffragette, prominent in the militant wing of the Scottish women's suffrage movement, member of the WSPU, imprisoned and force-fed[213]
Eva Gore-Booth (1870–1926) – Irish writer and suffragist, member of the executive committee of the NUWSS and co-secretary of the Manchester and Salford Women's Trade Union Council[214][215]
Lilias Ashworth Hallett (1844–1922) – British suffragist and Quaker who helped to fund suffrage campaigning activities, member of the London Society for Women's Suffrage, member of the executive committee of the NUWSS and member of the WSPU
Cicely Hamilton in 1907Hazel Hunkins Hallinan (1890–1982) – American women's rights activist, journalist, and suffragist who moved to Britain and was active in the women's movement there[224]
Cicely Hamilton (1872–1952) – English actress, writer, journalist and feminist[225]
Edith How-Martyn (1875–1954) – British suffragette, joint secretary of the WSPU and co-founder of the WFL,[250] arrested in the lobby of the House of Commons trying to give a speech which was one of the first acts of suffragette militancy[251]
Elsie Howey (1884–1963) – English suffragette who was jailed at least six times and dressed as Joan of Arc during a WSPU demonstration in London[252]
Ellen Hughes (1867–1927) – Welsh writer, poet, temperance reformer and suffragist[254][255]
Florence Hull (born 1878) – English suffragette, member of WSPU, imprisoned in January 1913
Ethel Hurlbatt (1866–1934) – British academic and suffragist, member of the Cardiff and District National Suffrage Society and honorary secretary for the Association for Promoting the Education of Women
Jane (Jennie) Alice Jackson (1880-1955) Preston, Lancashire mill worker. Imprisoned in 1907 at Holloway for suffragette activities. Key organiser against the census 1911. Member of the Independent Labour Party.
Harriet Kerr in 1913Jessie Kenney (1887–1985) – English leading suffragette, assaulted the British prime minister and the home secretary at a golf course
Kitty Kenney (1880–1952) – English suffragette, member of the WSPU
Frida Laski (1884–1977) – British suffragist, birth control advocate and eugenicistLilian Lenton in a Home Office police surveillance photograph of 1914[283]
Dorothy Layton (1887–1959) – English suffragist and Liberal Party politician, member of the NUWSS
Jennie Lee (1904–1988) – Scottish politician, elected MP aged 24 in 1929 by-election before suffrage was extended to women under 30[284]
Connie Lewcock (1894–1980) – British suffragette, arsonist and socialist[282]
Members of the Cardiff and District Women's Suffrage Society, including Rose Mabel Lewis, at the Women's Suffrage Pilgrimage in Cathays Park, Cardiff in 1913Rose Mabel Lewis (1853–1928) – Welsh writer and suffragist, leader of the Cardiff and District Women's Suffrage Society[287]
Elizabeth Lidgett (1843–1919) – British Poor Law guardian and suffragist
Victoria Lidiard (1889–1992) – WPSU member and reputed to be the longest surviving British suffragette[288]
Thomas Martin Lindsay (1843–1914) – Scottish historian, professor and founder member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage
Florence Lockwood (1861–1937) – British suffragist active in West Yorkshire, served on the executive of the Huddersfield Branch of the NUWSS
Louisa Lumsden (1840–1935) – Scottish pioneer of female education and suffrage speaker, president of the Aberdeen branch of the NUWSS, planted The Suffrage Oak in Glasgow[138]
Kathleen Lyttelton (1856–1907) – British women's activist, editor and writer, co-founded The Cambridge Association For Women's Suffrage (CAWS)
Ann Macbeth (1875–1948) – British artist, educator and suffragist, member of the WSPU
Agnes Syme Macdonald (1882–1966) – Scottish suffragette who served as the secretary of the Edinburgh branch of the WSPU before setting up the Edinburgh Women Citizens Association (WCA) in 1918[295][296]
Lavinia Malcolm (1847–1920) – Scottish suffragist and local Liberal Movement politician, the first Scottish woman to be elected to a local council (1907) and the first woman Lord Provost of a Scottish burgh town, in Dollar, Clackmannanshire[303]
Evelyn Manesta – British suffragette, damaged paintings in Manchester Art Gallery and was imprisoned for a month[199][200][304]
Kate Manicom (1893–1937) – British suffragette and trade unionist[305]
Grace Marcon (1889–1965) – British suffragette who damaged five paintings in the National Gallery[261][306]
Mildred Mansel in 1910Catherine Marshall (1880–1961) – British suffragette and campaigner against war conscription, member of the NUWSS, founder of the Keswick branch
Kitty Marion (1871–1944) – German-born English actress, suffragette and birth control activist, member of the WSPU, perpetrated arson attacks, sentenced to three years in prison[311][312][313]
Dora Marsden (1882–1960) – English anarcho-feminist, suffragette, editor of literary journals, and philosopher of language; member of the WSPU[314][315]
Charlotte Marsh (1842–1909) – British suffragette, joined the WSPU in March 1907, set up the Independent WSPU in March 1916, first suffragette to be arrested in Hull[316][317]
Constance Maud (1856 – 11 May 1929) – English writer and suffragette, member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, author of No Surrender in 1911, a novel about the struggle for votes for women, and articles for the Votes for Women newspaper[331][332]
Jenny Maude (1857–1935) – author of her famous mother Jenny Lind's biography. In 1908, can be seen marching with her mother's suffragette banner
Elizabeth McCracken (1871–1944) – Irish feminist writer ("L.A.M. Priestley"), Belfast WSPU militant, refused wartime political truce with the government
Alice McLaren (1860–1945) – Scottish doctor, gynaecologist, suffragist and advocate for women's health and women's rights
Eva McLaren (1852–1921) – English suffragist, writer, and political campaigner[344]
Priscilla Bright McLaren (1815–1906) – Scottish suffragist, anti-slavery activist, founder and president of Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage[345]
Frances McPhun (1880–1940) – Scottish suffragette who served two months in Holloway prison, sister of Margaret McPhun[138][346]
Margaret McPhun (1876–1960) – Scottish suffragette who served two months in Holloway prison, sister of Frances McPhun[138]
Frances Melville (1873–1962) – Scottish suffragist, advocate for higher education for women in Scotland, and one of the first women to matriculate at the University of Edinburgh[347]
Adele Meyer (1855–1930) – English socialite, social reformer, suffragist and philanthropist, supporter of the Women's Tax Resistance League (WTRL) and the Anti-Sweating League
Alice Meynell (1847–1922) – English poet and suffragist, vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League and co-founder of the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society[137]
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) – English philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, brought the first parliamentary proposal to enfranchise some women[313]
Eunice Murray (1878–1960) – Scottish suffragist, member of the WFL, and only Scottish woman who stood for election when UK elections were opened to women in 1918[361]
Dorinda Neligan (1833–1914) – Irish-born English headmistress and suffragette[370]
Margaret Nevinson (1858–1932) – English suffragist, Justice of the Peace, Poor Law guardian and playwright, member of the Church League for Women's Suffragem WSPU and WFL[371]
Edith New and Mary Leigh in 1908Edith New (1877–1951) – English suffragette who was one of the first two suffragettes to use vandalism as a tactic, chained herself to the railings of 10 Downing Street alongside Olivia Smith, shouting "Votes for Women!"[372][373][374]
Richard Pankhurst – British barrister, politician and supporter of women's suffrage, member of the committee of the Manchester Society for Women's Suffrage, married to Emmeline Pankhurst
Frances Mary "Fanny" Parker (1875–1924) – New Zealand-born suffragette prominent in the militant wing of the Scottish women's suffrage movement, repeatedly imprisoned for her actions[395]
Dorothy Pethick (1881–1970) – British suffragette, member of the WSPU, younger sister of Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence[404][321][405]
Emily Jane Pfeiffer – Welsh feminist poet and philanthropist who supported women's suffrage and higher education for women
Leonora Philipps (1862–1915) – British Liberal suffragist, president of Welsh Union of Women's Liberal Associations and co-founder of the Pioneer Club[406]
Clara Rackham (1875–1966) – English magistrate, prison reformer, factory inspector, long-serving alderman and city councillor in Cambridge, member of the Cambridge Women's Suffrage Association[414]
Elizabeth Robins (1862–1952) – American-born Ibsen actress, playwright, public speaker, and novelist, member of the WSPU and NUWSS, campaigned in Sussex[427]
Plaque to Maude Royden at Frankby Cemetery[431]Rona Robinson (1881–1973) – British chemist and suffragette, member of the WSPU and in 1905 the first woman in the United Kingdom to gain a first-class degree in chemistry[310]
Esther Roper (1868–1938) – English suffragist, held the salaried position of secretary of the Manchester National Society for Women’s Suffrage[214]
Lolita Roy (born 1865) – believed to have been an important organizer of the Women's Coronation Procession (a suffrage march in London) in 1911, and marched as part of it with either her sisters or daughters[432][433]
Mathilde Wolff Van Sandau (1843–1926) – German-born British suffragette, member of the WSPU and went on hunger strike[438]
Margaret Mansfield, Baroness Sandhurst (1828–1892) – British suffragist and spiritualist, one of the first women elected to a city council in the United Kingdom
Jessie Saxby (1842–1940) – Scottish author, folklorist and suffragette
Alice Schofield (1881–1975) – English suffragette and politician who was the first woman councillor in Middlesbrough
Group of East London suffragettes, including Julia Scurr, Daisy Parsons and Jessie Payne[398]Amelia Scott (1860–1952) – British suffragette, established "the ‘Leisure Hour Club for Young Women in Business" in Tunbridge Wells and participated in the suffrage "pilgrimage" to London organised by the Kentish Federation of Women’s Suffrage Societies
Arabella Scott (1886–1980) – Scottish suffragette who endured five weeks of solitary confinement in Perth prison and force feeding twice a day[439]
Julia Scurr (1871–1927) – British suffragette and politician, member of the ELFS, part of a delegation to the Prime Minister in 1914[52][398]
Frances Simson (1854–1938) – Scottish suffragist, campaigner for women's higher education and one of the first of eight women graduates from the University of Edinburgh[11]
May Sinclair (1863–1946) – English writer and suffragist, member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League
Sophia Duleep Singh (1876–1948) – Suffragist and Princess who had leading roles in the Women's Tax Resistance League and the WSPU, contributed towards fundraising efforts and sold TheSuffragette newspaper outside her home and from press carts[105][446][447][448][449]
Edith Splatt (1873?–1945) – British dressmaker, journalist and councillor, member of the WSPU, wrote a column titled "Womanland" for Exeter's Express and Echo, the first woman to win a seat on Exeter City Council[460]
Jessie Stephen in 1930Lady Barbara Steel (1857–1943) – Scottish suffragist and tax resister, member of the Scottish Women’s Liberal Federation and the Edinburgh Suffrage Society[461]
Flora Stevenson (1839–1905) – Scottish social reformer and suffragist, with interest in education for poor or neglected children
Louisa Stevenson (1835–1908) – Scottish suffragist[465] and campaigner for women's university education and effective, well-organised nursing, co-founder of Edinburgh’s Queen Margaret University
Helena SwanwickCharlotte Carmichael Stopes (1840–1929) – British scholar, author, and campaigner for women's rights whose book British Freewomen: Their Historical Privilege (1894) influenced the suffrage movement[170]
Lucy Deane Streatfeild (1865–1950) – British civil servant, social worker, one of the first female factory inspectors, member of the NUWSS
Emily Sturge (1847–1892) – British suffragist and women's education activist, secretary of the West of England branch of the NUWSS
Ann Swaine (born in or before 1821–1883) – British writer, suffragist and advocate for women's higher education
Annie S. Swan (1859–1943) – Scottish journalist, novelist and suffragette, arrested during a window smashing raid in London, later a founder-member and vice-president of the Scottish National Party
Helena Swanwick (1864–1939) – British feminist, pacifist and suffragist, member of the NUWSS, WSPU and WILPF[466][467]
Isabella Tod (1836–1896) – Scottish suffragist, women's rights campaigner in the north of Ireland, helped women secure the municipal franchise in Belfast[479][480]
Aethel Tollemache (c. 1875–1955) – suffragette, member of the Bath WSPU branch, went on hunger strike in Holloway Prison[481]
Helen Tolson (1888–1955) – English suffragette, member of the WSPU, sister of Catherine Tolson
Mabel Tuke (1871–1962) – English suffragette, honorary secretary of the WSPU[213]
Florence Tunks (1891–1985) – suffragette, member of the WSPU who engaged in a campaign of arson in Suffolk[484]
Julia Turner (1863–1946) – British psychoanalyst and suffragette
Minnie Turner (1866–1948) – English suffragette, ran a guest house in Brighton, member of the NUWSS, the WTRL and the WSPU, honorary secretary of the Women's Liberal Association in Brighton, awarded the hunger strike medal[485]
Mary Fraser Tytler (1849–1938) – British artist and suffragist, president of the Godalming and District National Union of Women's Suffrage Society (a local branch of the NUWSS)[486]
Julia Varley (1871–1952) – English trade unionist and suffragette[28]
Alice Vickery (1844–1929) – English doctor, the first British woman to qualify as a chemist and pharmacist and delegate to the Congress of the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance in Amsterdam in 1908[487][488]
Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864–1942) – Scottish artist, illustrator, children's writer and suffragette, member of the WSPU, went on hunger strike after being arrested for militancy[37]Bessie Watson
Olive Grace Walton (1886–1937) – British suffragette, was arrested three times, imprisoned twice, and force-fed in Aylesbury Prison after a hunger strike, member of the WSPU
Bettina Borrmann Wells (born 1874) – Bavarian-born English suffragette who toured the United States as an organizer and lecturer[494]
Vera Wentworth (1890–1957) – British suffragette, nurse and playwright. Member of the WSPU, was sent to Holloway Prison and was force fed. She door stepped and then assaulted the Prime Minister twice. She wrote Three Months in Holloway[19][495]
Rebecca West (1892–1983) – British author, journalist, literary critic, travel writer, wrote articles supporting women's suffrage in the Freewoman feminist weekly review
Olive Wharry (1886–1947) – English suffragette, artist and arsonist; imprisoned with Lilian Lenton for burning down the tea pavilion at Kew Gardens, member of the Church League for Women's Suffrage and the WSPU, went on hunger strike in prison
Eliza Wigham (1820–1899) – Scottish suffragist and abolitionist, founder member of the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage[345]
Jane Wigham (1801–1888) – Scottish suffragist and abolitionist, founded the Glasgow Anti-Slavery Society and member of the Edinburgh chapter of the National Society of Women's Suffrage[345]
Ellen Wilkinson (1891–1947) – British suffragist, politician and member of parliament, served as minister of education, member of the Manchester Society for Women's Suffrage[501]
Gertrude Wilkinson (1851–1929) – British suffragette, member of the WSPU, Literature Secretary for the WFL, imprisoned in Winson Green Prison and went on hunger strike[14]
Elizabeth Wilks (1861–1956) – English suffragist and tax resister
Helen Mary Wilson (1864–1951) – British physician and social campaigner, honorary secretary then president of the Sheffield Women's Suffrage Society
Celia Wray (1872–1954) – English suffragette and architect[21]
I. A. R. Wylie (1885–1959) – Australian-British writer, suffragette in UK, working on The Suffragette[508]
Barbara Wylie (1861–1954) – organiser of the Glasgow branch of the WSPU, went on a speaking tour of Canada and gave a speech that inspired the slogan "deeds not words"[509]
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Lucy Yates (1863–1935) – British writer and suffragist, member of the WSPU and the WFL[510]
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Israel Zangwill (1864–1926) – English writer, member of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage[511]
Alice Zimmern (1855–1939) – English teacher, writer and suffragist, leading member of the Barnsley Women's Suffrage Society
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