List of suffragists and suffragettes
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This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals who campaigned and strongly advocated for women's suffrage, organizations they formed themselves into or joined, and suffrage publications which publicized and strengthened their goals. The suffragists and suffragettes of the Women's Voting Rights Movement were often members of different societies which had the same aim but used differing tactics. For example, suffragettes in the British usage denotes a more 'militant' type of campaigner.
American (United States) [edit]
- Jane Addams
- Susan B. Anthony
- Annie Arniel
- Addie L. Ballou
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- Bertha Hirsch Baruch
- Alva Belmont
- Alice Stone Blackwell
- Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921) - founded American Woman Suffrage Association with Lucy Stone in 1869
- Alice Stone Blackwell
- Henry Browne Blackwell (1825-1909) - founded Woman's Journal with Lucy Stone
- Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
- Amelia Bloomer
- Madeline McDowell Breckinridge
- Sophonisba Breckinridge
- Olympia Brown
- Emma Bugbee
- Lucy Burns
- Frances Jennings Casement (1840–1928)
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- Tennessee Celeste Claflin (1844–1923)
- Laura Clay
- Nancy Cook (1884–1962)
- Ida Craft
- Minnie Fisher Cunningham (1882–1964)
- Marion Dickerman (1890–1983)
- Frederick Douglass
- Abigail Scott Duniway
- Max Eastman
- Helga Estby
- Janet Ayer Fairbank (1878-1951)
- Clara S. Foltz
- Elizabeth Fouse
- Elisabeth Freeman
- Matilda Joslyn Gage
- Sarah Grimke
- Eliza Caroline "Lida" Calvert Obenchain (pen name Eliza Calvert Hall)
- Florence Jaffray Harriman
- Josephine K. Henry
- Katharine Houghton Hepburn
- Julia Ward Howe
- Mary Livermore
- Ada James
- Izetta Jewel
- Rosalie Gardiner Jones
- Abby Kelley
- Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin (1883–1965)
- Clara Chan Lee - first Chinese American to register to vote in the U.S., November 8, 1911[1]
- Florence Luscomb
- Edna Buckman Kearns (1882–1934)
- Jane Hungerford Milbank (1871-1931)
- Inez Milholland
- Harriet May Mills
- Esther Hobart Morris
- Lucretia Mott
- Alice Paul
- Helen Pitts (1838–1903)
- Anita Pollitzer
- Florence Kenyon Hayden Rector
- Margaret Sanger
- Julia Sears
- Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) - president of National Women's Suffrage Association 1904-1915
- Mary Shaw (1854–1929)
- May Gorslin Preston Slosson
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Doris Stevens
- Lucy Stone
- Lydia Taft
- M. Carey Thomas
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Mina Van Winkle
- Ida B. Wells
- Rosa Welt-Straus
- Frances Willard
- Maud Wood Park
- Victoria Woodhull
Australian [edit]
- Dora Meeson Coates
- Edith Cowan
- Fanny Furner
- Vida Goldstein
- Louisa Lawson
- Mary Lee
- Muriel Matters
- Emma Miller
- Rose Scott
- Catherine Helen Spence
- Jessie Street
Austrian [edit]
Belgian [edit]
- Marie Popelin (1846-1913) - feminist, educator, in 1892 founded the Belgian League for Women's Rights
- Isala Van Diest
British [edit]
- Mary Sophia Allen
- Katharine Russell, Viscountess Amberley
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
- Louisa Garrett Anderson
- Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
- Dorothea Beale
- Mary Gawthorpe
- Lydia Becker
- Ethel Bentham
- Annie Besant
- Rosa May Billinghurst
- Teresa Billington-Greig
- Margaret Bondfield
- Catherine Booth
- Elsie Bowerman
- Vera Brittain
- Frances Buss
- Josephine Butler
- Mona Caird
- Mabel Capper
- Anne Clough
- Leonora Cohen
- Margaret Cole
- Selina Cooper
- Richmal Crompton
- Mary Crudelius
- Emily Davies
- Emily Davison (1872–1913) - militant activist, key member of the Women's Social and Political Union, died in a protest action at a racetrack
- Charlotte Despard
- Flora Drummond
- Norah Elam
- Millicent Fawcett
- Elizabeth Fry
- Edith Margaret Garrud
- Nellie Hall
- Cicely Hamilton
- Marion Coates Hansen
- Jane Ellen Harrison
- Evelina Haverfield
- Emily Hobhouse
- Winifred Holtby
- Clemence Housman
- Laurence Housman
- Elizabeth How-Martyn
- Elsie Inglis
- Sophia Jex-Blake
- Ellen Isabel Jones
- Annie Kenney
- Grace Kimmins
- Anne Knight
- Annie Knight
- Jennie Lee
- Lilian Lenton
- Constance Lytton
- Agnes Macdonald
- Margaret Mackworth
- Sarah Mair
- Dora Marsden
- Selina Martin
- Harriet Martineau
- Eleanor Marx
- Alice Meynell
- Harriet Taylor Mill
- John Stuart Mill
- Hannah Mitchell
- Dora Montefiore
- Flora Murray
- Mary Neal
- Alison Roberta Noble Neilans
- Florence Nightingale
- Ada Nield Chew
- Christabel Pankhurst (1880–1958) - co-founder and leader of the Women's Social and Political Union
- Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) - a main founder and the leader of the British Suffragette Movement
- Sylvia Pankhurst
- Adela Pankhurst
- Edith Pechey
- Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867–1954) - member Suffrage Society, secretary Women's Social and Political Union
- Eleanor Rathbone
- Mary Reid
- Mary Richardson
- Edith Rigby
- Elizabeth Robins
- Rona Robinson
- Esther Roper
- Agnes Royden
- Sophia Duleep Singh
- Ethel Smyth
- Ethel Snowden
- Flora Stevenson
- Louisa Stevenson
- Helena Swanwick
- Dora Thewlis
- Elizabeth Thompson
- Marion Wallace Dunlop
- Harriet Shaw Weaver
- Beatrice Webb
- Rebecca West
- Olive Wharry
- Ellen Wilkinson
- Alice Zimmern
Canadian [edit]
- Nellie McClung - member of The Famous Five
- Emily Stowe
- Gertrude Harding
Danish [edit]
- Mathilde Fibiger
- Eline Hansen
- Line Luplau
- Louise Nørlund
- Elna Munch
- Johanne Rambusch
- Caroline Testman
Dutch [edit]
Egyptian [edit]
French [edit]
- Hubertine Auclert
- Maria Deraismes
- Jeanne Deroin
- Marguerite Durand
- Olympe de Gouges
- Madeleine Pelletier
- Pauline Roland
- Séverine
- Flora Tristan
German [edit]
Iceland [edit]
Italian [edit]
Irish [edit]
- Louie Bennett
- Mary Fleetwood Berry
- Helen Chenevix
- Frances Power Cobbe
- Margaret "Gretta" Cousins (1878–1954) - Irish-Indian, established All India Women's Conference, co-founded Irish Women's Franchise League
- Norah Elam aka Norah Dacre Fox
- Eva Gore-Booth
- Anna Haslam (1829-1922) - founder of the Dublin Women's Suffrage Association
- Mary Hayden
- Kathleen Lynn
- Margaret McCoubrey
- Mary Ann McCracken
- Constance Markievicz
- Helena Moloney
- Mary Donovan O'Sullivan
- Sarah Persse
- Jenny Wyse Power
- Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington - founder-member of the Irish Women's Franchise League
- Anna Doyle Wheeler
New Zealander [edit]
Norwegian [edit]
Peruvian [edit]
Puerto Rican [edit]
Russian [edit]
Scottish [edit]
Spanish [edit]
Swedish [edit]
- Gertrud Adelborg
- Signe Bergman - Chairman, Swedish Society for Woman Suffrage
- Emilia Broomé
- Frigga Carlberg
- Ann-Margret Holmgren
- Sofia Gumaelius
- Ellen Key
- Valborg Olander
- Elin Wägner
- Lydia Wahlström
- Karolina Widerström
- Anna Whitlock
Switzerland [edit]
The Yishuv [edit]
Major suffrage organizations [edit]
- American Equal Rights Association - from 1866 to 1869, early attempt at a national organization by Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony and others
- American Woman Suffrage Association - American suffrage organization formed in 1869 by Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell after a split in the American Equal Rights Association. It joined NAWSA in 1890
- Canadian Women's Suffrage Association - founded 1877, name changed in 1883 to Toronto Women's Suffrage Association
- Country Association for Women's Suffrage - Swedish organization from 1902 to 1921
- Dublin Women's Suffrage Association - major Irish organization
- International Alliance of Women - founded in 1904 to promote women's suffrage
- Irish Women's Franchise League - founded in 1908, more radical than the Dublin Association
- National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) - American group formed in 1890 by the joining of the American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association
- National Society for Women's Suffrage - Britain's first large suffrage organization, founded in 1867 by Lydia Becker
- National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies - a major United Kingdom organization
- National Woman's Party - major United States organization founded in 1913 by Alice Paul
- National Women's Rights Convention - major U.S. organizing conventions, held from 1850 to 1869
- National Woman Suffrage Association - American organization founded in 1869 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton after the split in the American Equal Rights Association, joined NAWSA in 1890
- Women's Franchise League - major British group created in 1889 by Emmeline Pankhurst
- Women's Social and Political Union - a major suffrage organization in United Kingdom (breakaway from the National Union for Women's Suffrage)
Women's suffrage publications [edit]
- Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - drafted by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1878, ratified in 1920
- Declaration of Sentiments - major statement passed at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, written mainly by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
- History of Woman Suffrage - six books produced from 1881 to 1922 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Ida Husted Harper.
- Suffrage Atelier - publishing collective in England, founded 1909
- The Revolution - weekly U.S. newspaper, 1868-1872. Official publication of the National Woman Suffrage Association
- Woman's Journal - major suffrage journal founded by Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell in 1870, eventually absorbed other suffrage publications
- Women's Suffrage Journal - magazine published from 1870-1890 in the United Kingdom.
See also [edit]
- List of civil rights leaders
- List of democracy and elections-related topics
- List of feminists
- List of women's rights activists
- Open Christmas Letter
- Suffrage Hikes
- Timeline of first women's suffrage in majority-Muslim countries
- Timeline of women's rights (other than voting)
- Timeline of women's suffrage
References [edit]
- ^ Yung, Judy (1995). Unbound Feet, A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco. . University of California Press.
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