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Suffragette

noun

A woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century).

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"Suffragette" Quotes from Famous Books

... announced the former, thinking ruefully of the bare countryside, with never a house of consequence within a radius of miles ... "I am a suffragette. I believe in the high, lofty mission of women!" cried the second, who had been converted to the movement the day before by the sight of some sketches in the Daily Graphic. Only nine- year-old Maud sniffed, and opined, "I shall marry a lord! Then he'll ...

— Etheldreda the Ready - A School Story • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... went to school in Edinburgh, attending an institution not unlike John Thompson's Ladies College referred to in The Judge (but only referred to). It is a fact, as everyone who knows anything about Miss West knows, that Miss West was an ardent suffragette in that time before suffragettes had ceased from troubling and Prime Ministers were at rest. An amazing legend got about some time ago that Rebecca West's real name was Regina Miriam Bloch. Then on the strength of the erring "Readers' ...

— When Winter Comes to Main Street • Grant Martin Overton

... also a Suffragette Club which is known as the Civic League, and is also instrumental in promoting public welfare. The Mothers' Clubs or Associations too, are better developed than those in many a large city; a fact which rather agreeably surprised me and proves how decidedly progressive ...

— Reno - A Book of Short Stories and Information • Lilyan Stratton

... to be any such star as Cornelia; but she don't look so much like a suffragette as I expected. She's plump, and middle aged, and plain dressed; but there's more or less style to the way she carries herself. Also she has just a suspicion of eye twinkle behind the glasses, which suggests that perhaps some of this programme ...

— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

... telegraph pole in front of the house! And if I can only make an impression with my dancing, then I may choose that for my career. I've been thinking of it seriously... it's one way, that people might let me preach joy and health to them. If I can't do that, I'll go off and turn into a suffragette, or join the Anarchists, or ...

— The Naturewoman • Upton Sinclair

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