Describe the Ways In Which the Methods of the Suffragettes and the Suffragists Were Different ?

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DESCRIBE THE WAYS IN WHICH THE METHODS OF THE SUFFRAGETTES AND THE SUFFRAGISTS WERE DIFFERENT ?  

        The early campaigners of the vote were known as the suffragists. They were mainly but not always middle classed women. When the MP john Stuart mill had suggested giving the votes to women in 1867, 73 MP’s had supported the motion . after so many MPs voted in favour of women suffrage in 1867 large numbers of local women’s suffrage societies were formed. By the time they came together in 1897 to form the national union of women suffrage societies (NUWSS), there were over 500 local branches. By 1902 the campaign had gained support of Woking class women as well. In 1901-1902, Eva gore-booth gathered signatures of 67,000 textile workers in northern England for a petition to parliament. The leader of the movement was Millicent Fawcett. She believed in constitutional campaigning and argued her case with MPs, issued leaflets, presented petitions and organised meetings. She thought it was vital to keep the issue in the public eye and at every election, suffragists questioned the candidates on their attitudes to women’s suffrage. She talked of the suffragist movement as a glacier, slow but unstoppable but by 1900 some success, gaining support of many liberal Mps and some leading Conservative Mps, as well as the modern but rather trivial Labour party. However there was a rather curious situation in parliament with regard to women’s suffrage and many Backbench Liberal MPs were supporters of votes for women, but the Liberal Leaders Mps were opposed to it. This was purely because they feared that the women would vote for their rivals the Conservative party. In the years up to 1900, fifteen times parliament received a bill to give women the franchise and fifteen times it was redundant.    

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In 1903, the Women's Social and Political Union was set up by Emmeline Pankhurst. In the quest for equal suffrage with men, the W.S.P.U. had used more or less the same as the tactics as N.W.S.S. by means of partitions and campaigning. This group of women were not prepared to break the law in their battle to be included in the franchise, but these issues were constantly ignored by MPs, who continually tried to pacify these women by offering false promises. This led to the suffragettes adopting a more aggressive and militant stance. After the latest in a long line ...

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