In newspaper articles describing the early days of the more militant movement, the word “suffragette” often appeared in scare quotes, also known as sneer quotes, which suggest that a label is ...

Meryl Streep has only a four-minute speaking scene in the movie “Suffragette,” playing turn-of-the-century British suffrage leader Emmeline Pankhurst, a catalyst for the campaign to win women ...

Meryl Streep, left, director Sarah Gavron and writer Abi Morgan attend the “Suffragette” world premiere at Telluride Film Festival on Sept. 4, 2015. in Telluride, Colorado.

In 1913, the newspaper The Suffragette published the entire defense that Billinghurst had delivered to an all-male jury, titling it, “The Guilt Lies on the Shoulders of the Government.” ...

The film Suffragette, which is due for release, ... By about 1910 she was regularly running suffragette-only classes and had written for the WSPU's newspaper, Votes for Women.

One Suffragette, quoted on the Museum of London website, ... Between 1913 and 1914, more than 300 incidents of arson and bombing were reported in The Suffragette newspaper, ...

A statue of a suffragette in downtown Coeur d’Alene has been defaced, with yellow graffiti covering the woman’s face, an X over her sign demanding women’s right to vote and the words “BETA ...

Screenwriter Abi Morgan's new movie focuses on the working-class women who fought for votes in the U.K. before World War I. She tells NPR she had no intention of making a polite British costume drama.

Over the past few centuries, women have traveled a long road to gain the right to vote, and Carol Simon Levin discussed many of the hairpin turns, speed bumps and ...