The Suffragettes and the Struggle for Womens Right to Vote (Q. 2)

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  1. Study sources B and C. Does source B support the evidence of source C about the Suffragette campaign? Explain your answer.

Source B’s provenance immediately suggests that the person concerned opposed to the Suffragettes and their opinions. The book from which source B is extracted from is called ‘Woman or Suffragette’. This suggests that the author, Marie Corelli, feels that the Suffragettes do not present women as a whole, and are also set apart from other women. Source B suggests that Suffragette campaigning is a cry for attention from a ‘group of discontented ladies’, and that votes for women is merely a fad that these ladies will soon get bored of. It not only suggests that Suffragette campaigning is an unnecessary waste of time, but it also suggests that women are themselves responsible for raising boys and men that treat women this unfairly. It states that women should concentrate on making and raising responsible voters rather than wasting time trying to become voters themselves. From all that we can see, we can assume that source B is not only against Suffragette methods, but against votes for women as a whole.

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Source C agrees with source B to some extent. It shows a cartoon of a suffragist, a respectable, and calm and collected ‘votes for women’ supporter, and a suffragette, a scruffy, violent looking votes for women campaigner. The cartoon shows both suffragist and suffragette standing outside a Liberal Party (who were in power at the time) meeting, the suffragette looking as if she wants to disrupt or break into the meeting, and the suffragist calmly holding her back, and at the same time shown blaming the violent suffragette for stopping women as a majority getting the vote through violent, ...

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