The suffragette housemaid Finish:Single 'Theatrical Mendicants

'Theatrical Mendicants

Emil Jellinek

Frontispiece from Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists by Sister Nivedita and Ananda Coomaraswamy

with a banquet at the Corporation's expense

View of the opening of the new Blackfriars Bridge by Queen Victoria from the south bank of the River Thames

The suffragette housemaid Finish:Single 'Theatrical MendicantsThe suffragette housemaid, 1908. A suffragette wearing a pinafore advertising a protest on London's Victoria Embankment. The campaign to secure the vote for women in Britain saw women adopting a range of protests, direct action and civil disobedience, for which many were imprisoned. Partial suffrage was achieved in 1918, with all women finally gaining the right to vote ten years later, in 1928.