Atdtda22: [42.1i] Suffrag, 607

[Paul Nightingale]

[607.22] ... the many Suffragettes ...

Cf. Sands on 447: "Damned Suffragettes again I shouldn't wonder."

Also cf. the Silent Frock scene on 501: "A hundred women on the move ..."
etc.

By early 1906, these militants had become known as "suffragettes" after the
halfpenny mass-circulation Daily Mail derisively substituted the diminutive
"ette" for "ist". Suffragettes formed a number of organizations, including
the Women's Social and Political Union (1903), the Women's Freedom League
(1907), the Men's Political Union (1910), and the Women's Tax Resistance
League (1909). Significant splits and regroupings would result in creation
of the United Suffragists (1914), the East London Federation of Suffragettes
(1914), the Suffragettes of the Women's Social and Political Union (1915),
and the Independent WSPU (1916). Between 1906 and 1918, suffragettes refined
the right of resistance to illegitimate government as a right grounded in
British constitutional principles. In contrast, the National Union of
Women's Suffrage Societies, which in 1897 had united warring factions of the
nineteenth-century movement and would become the largest suffrage
organization of the Edwardian period, continued largely to confine itself to
the assertion of women's right to citizenship. [...] 

Resistance emerged as a feature of suffragettes' engagement with liberal
citizenship for a number of reasons. One possibility is that some
suffragists tired of presenting their demands within the same narrowly
defined constitutional framework that allowed for the mere assertion of
right. The presentation of endless petitions and incessant lobbying of
members of Parliament for legislation that was inevitably defeated began to
frustrate many women active in the movement. Suffragettes were therefore
believed to have been motivated to move from constitutionalism to various
forms of anarchy because seemingly having exhausted the legislative
possibilities for women's enfranchisement, they fully rejected government's
authority.

From: Laura E. Nym Mayhall, The Militant Suffrage Movement: Citizenship and
Resistance in Britain, 1860-1930, Oxford University Press, 2003, 40-41.