Women's Social and Political Union
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The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was the leading militant organisation campaigning for Women's suffrage in Great Britain, 1903–1917. Its membership and policies were tightly controlled by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia (although Sylvia broke away). It was best known for hunger strikes (and forced feeding), for breaking windows in prominent buildings, and for night-time arson of unoccupied houses and churches.
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Notable members of WSPU
- Jean Beadle
- Rosa May Billinghurst
- Teresa Billington-Greig
- Elsie Bowerman
- Helen Cruickshank
- Charlotte Despard
- Louisa Garrett Anderson
- Edith Margaret Garrud
- Emily Davison
- Flora Drummond
- Norah Elam
- Lilian Lenton
- Sophia Duleep Singh
- Mary Gawthorpe
- Nellie Hall
- Beatrice Harraden
- J. F. Horrabin
- Edith How-Martyn
- Ellen Isabel Jones
- Annie Kenney
- Aeta Adelaide Lamb
- Constance Lytton
- Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda
- Christabel Marshall
- Kitty Marion
- Dora Marsden
- Flora Murray
- Margaret Nevinson
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Frances Parker
- Adela Pankhurst
- Christabel Pankhurst
- Sylvia Pankhurst
- Alice Paul
- Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
- Mary Richardson
- Edith Rigby
- Elizabeth Robins
- Rona Robinson
- Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford
- Dame Ethel Mary Smyth
- Harriet Shaw Weaver
- Frances Swiney
- Evelyn Sharp
- Dora Thewlis
- Olive Wharry
- Alice Wheeldon
- Rose Emma Lamartine Yates
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See also
- Feminism in the United Kingdom
- List of suffragists and suffragettes
- List of women's rights activists
- List of women's rights organizations
- Timeline of women's suffrage
- Women's suffrage organizations
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