There were many important and significant achievements gained during the women's movement. From the mid 1800's to the present day the fight for women's rights has been an enormous social issue. There have been significant gains for women in many areas including education, medicine, married women's property act, women's suffrage, etc. In looking at all of these gains for women and societal victories over the past 150 years I chose women's suffrage as the most important achievement for women.
Suffrage is defined as the right to vote. This was a right women were deprived of for many years. I believe the women's suffrage movement was so pivotal to remove the ideas and practices that men are superior to women.
The English suffrage movement was incredibly important because it provided the model for other European suffragist efforts. The first British suffrage committee was formed in 1865 in Manchester, England. Even before this committee was formed individuals in England championed and advocated women's suffrage, beginning as early as 1792.
Women's suffrage within England began to make progress in the late 1800's at the local levels. Women became involved in local charities and their children's education. As a result, women started playing significant roles on school boards and served on council. By 1869 unmarried women householders could vote in municipal elections. Women's suffrage, on the local level, was far more acceptable than it was on the national level.
The national movement became highly active in the early 1900's. Beginning in 1905 the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), led by Emmeline Pankhurst, participated in mass political demonstrations and rallies, produced propaganda, engaged in hunger strikes while imprisoned, etc.
Emmeline Pankhurst and her two daughters, Christabel and Sylvia, founded the WSPU in 1903. Another important women's organization in England, at this time, was the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) led by Millicent Garrett Fawcett.
Emmeline Pankhurst was the voice for women fighting for women's suffrage in the 1900's. ... At the age 54 in 1912, Emmeline Pankhurst went to jail 12 times in the same year. ... Pankhurst to seek out a reason and to change the views of society . ... Pankhurst died, women's voting age was lowered to 21 in Britain. In conclusion, Emmeline Pankhurst was significant because she was the voice for women in Britain. ...
Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist. ... Richard Pankhurst was a big supporter of his wife and she admired that very much of him. ... Pankhurst, her daughters, and other members received repeated prison sentences. ... Pankhurst and other members were rather violent most of the time. ... Pankhurst's civil war ended, as most wars do, in negotiation. ...
Deep down, somehow, he knew Madeline was still alive. ... Another theory of Madeline's burial proposes she came back as a ghost. ... When Madeline initially "died " no blood splattered. ... Madeline put up a fight while entombed. ... Madeline's illness caused her to fall into cataleptic states. ...
The imagery of coldness is mostly mentioned in the first stanza, as it is Madeline's first state of isolation. ... This is a contrast to the state of experience that Phorphyro will bring as he has a heart on fire for Madeline "Had come young Phorphyro, with heart on fire for Madeline" (stanza 9) which means that his warmth will later on melt Madeline's chastity-freezing soul. ... Stanza 13 then explains Madeline's full state of coldness where Phorphyro is entering, "He found him in a little moonlight room. ... The objects and colors that are linked to the cold imagery symboliz...
The WSPU was led by Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel. Emmeline Pankhurst was married to a lawyer and a committed socialist, Richard Pankhurst. ... The third time Emmeline Pankhurst was imprisoned she was transferred to the first division. ... Emmeline Pankhurst was later released because of her poor health condition and after a while all other suffragettes were released. ... In the end Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst non stop struggle and the women's contribution to the war effort were ver...
My name is Emmeline Pankhurst and I am known as the first suffragette. ... Pankhurst the true inheritor of the armed maidens of heroic legend." ... I marries Richard Marsden Pankhurst, a lawyer who drafted an amendment to the Municipal Franchise Act of 1869, which allowed unmarried women householders to vote in local elections, and who wrote the Married Women's Property acts in 1870 and 1882. ...
That representation foreshadows the vault in which Madeline Usher is prematurely entombed. The image thus foresees Madeline's death. ... Moreover, the event of the entombment of Madeline Usher acquires more sense of terror to the story. ... Also, Madeline's appearance at the end of the story accumulates to an even grander scale of terror. ... The blood upon Madeline's white robes adds to her own physical demeanor of terror. ...
In "The Fall of the House of Usher," the "I" narrator conceals his memory of the deceased Madeline entombed in the house in his subconscious, and unknowingly brings it out into his conscious and consequently, brings back the body of Madeline. ... The imaginative component of the narrator's mind is now released as we discover that "without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady Madeline of Usher" (1148). Usher is instantly killed by Madeline's heavy fall upon him and the narrator leaves the "House of Usher" frightened of the influence and strength of...
