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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

... 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' Guide to Periodical Literature" did Miss Amy Wellington ...

— When Winter Comes to Main Street • Grant Martin Overton

... One may not be able to get along with her; yet is it patent, as of old time, that one cannot get along without her. But, regarding Miss West, I do entertain one fervent hope, namely, that she is not a suffragette. That would ...

— The Mutiny of the Elsinore • Jack London

... gets on one's mind. That's the trouble with Americans, anyway. They show you a building and tell you the weight of it, and then the cost of it. Even women are judged by their weight. Only last night I saw in the papers something about a suffragette. They said she weighed one hundred and fifty pounds! I think it is a mistake, myself. Tonnage is all right in a ship; but it doesn't signify much, either in a city or ...

— Aliens • William McFee

... you: but dont you worry: hes all right. I came out myself this morning: there was such a crowd! and a band! they thought I was a suffragette: only fancy! You see it was like this. Holy Joe got talking about how he'd been ...

— Fanny's First Play • George Bernard Shaw

Words linked to "Suffragette" : women's liberationist, suffragist, UK, libber, women's rightist, U.K., United Kingdom, suffrage, Great Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, feminist, Britain