History Main / TheSuffragette

* ''Film/ThoseMagnificentMenInTheirFlyingMachines'': Patricia Rawnsley, (Sarah Miles) the daughter of Lord Rawnsley. She has dreams of flying, and wants to fulfil them at any cost. She has a secret hideout on her father's estate, in which she hides her motorcycle, suffragette posters ("Give Women the Vote") and photos, and her tomboy clothes.

* DryCrusader [[note]] American suffragettes pushed for the prohibition of alcoholic beverages, leading to a widespread expectation that women's suffrage would inevitably lead to prohibition. Some prohibitionists even began supporting women's suffrage simply because they saw it as the easiest way to get prohibition enacted. At the same time, the liquor industry poured money into anti-suffrage organizations. Those who supported suffrage while opposing prohibition found themselves in a very difficult position politically.[[/note]]

* ''Series/ColdCase'': The oldest cold case that Lily and her team handled is set in 1919 which involves the murder of Francis Stone, a suffragette who was in conflict with her family for joining the movement. She and her family maid, Phil, are inspired to join the movement after the former saw that the latter had black eye given by her husband who disapproves of her reading a pamphlet given by the suffragettes. However, her mother tries to appeal to Francis that giving women the right to vote would to lead to the Prohibition being enacted which would shut down the family's brewing business. Despite being threatened to be disowned by her father, Francis sticks to her beliefs, leading to a heated argument with her mother who accidentally pushed her off the second story balcony, killing her.

* ''Series/HorribleHistories'': In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmUA6_6UJJU The Suffragette Song]]", suffragettes sing summarised version of history of the Woman's Suffrage Movement in Britain.

** Dr Emily Grace, Dr Ogden's protegee, gladly joins the women's movement. She's one of the most spirited and eager to fight or throw stones.

* In the ''Series/SherlockHolmes1954'' episode "The Case of the Careless Suffragette", a suffragette acquires a small bomb to blow up a lion statue on Trafalgar Square. Unfortunately the bomb is stolen and used in a murder.

* DryCrusader [[note]] American suffragettes pushed for the prohibition of alcoholic beverages, leading to a widespread expectation that women's suffrage would inevitably lead to prohibition. Some prohibitionists even began supporting women's suffrage simply because they saw it as the easiest way to get prohibition enacted. At the same time, the liquor industry poured money into anti-suffrage organizations. There were, of course, those who supported suffrage while opposing prohibition, and they found themselves in a very difficult position politically.[[/note]]

* In the Literature/{{Discworld}}'s expanded universe, Mariella Smith-Rhodes lives in a country that believes in open, free, democratic, elections. [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Provided you are a white, male, property owner]]. Mariella considers that getting the vote for women is a longer-term goal. In the short term, she uses lessons in Political Science she got from Lady T'Malia at the Assassins' School in Ankh-Morpork. Faced with getting the outside candidate, her cousin, elected as local MP, Mariella calls together the wives and daughters of the sleepy constituency of Bitterfontein. She reminds them that while only their husbands and fathers can vote, that is a vote cast on behalf of the ''entire family''. It is reasonable, ladies, that we have a say in how it is cast. We all know Julian Smith-Rhodes is the best candidate and his election will benefit everybody. I want you to go home and raise this reasonable point with the men, today, tomorrow and every day till the vote is cast. Sure enough, Mariella's form of suffragette agitation gets her cousin Julian elected as local MP. [[note]]In return, he has ptromised to get together with other like-minded MPs and to work for universal suffrage. Well, as this is a land of AmoralAfrikaners, universal suffrage for all ''white'' people. also reflect that our own UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica was comparatively late in extending the vote to women.[[/note]]

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* Winifred Banks (Creator/GlynisJohns) from ''Film/MaryPoppins'', the children's mother, is part of the "Sister Suffragette" group in the film's setting of 1910, and is often portrayed as often-distracted and too busy to take care of her family. She even gets a musical number about it! [[AdaptationExpansion This was a new creation of the film]], added specifically because the filmmakers wondered why a housewife would even need a nanny if she didn't have a day job or some kind of hobby to occupy her time like in the original ''Literature/MaryPoppins'' books. Incidentally, the song itself was a last minute addition. When Glynis Johns was offered a part in ''Mary Poppins'', she initially thought that they wanted her for the title role. To ease the embarrassment, Creator/WaltDisney promised that she would get her own musical number. Music/TheShermanBrothers then quickly rewrote the lyrics of a CutSong called "Practically Perfect," turning it into "Sister Suffragette."

* ''Film/{{Hysteria}}'': Charlotte believes in equal rights regardless of class and gender. Some characters consider her demands that women ought to be allowed to vote and that even poor people should get education and healthcare outlandish and crazy. The film is set in late Victorian period.

* DryCrusader [[note]] American suffragettes pushed for the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.[[/note]]

* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'': Etta Candy tries to defend her position to Wonder Woman in British Society by saying they will get the right to vote... someday.

* Winifred Banks (Creator/GlynisJohns) from ''Film/MaryPoppins'', the children's mother, is part of the "Sister Suffragette" group in the film's setting of 1910, and is often portrayed as often-distracted and too busy to take care of her family. She even gets a musical number about it! [[AdaptationExpansion This was a new creation of the film]], added specifically because the filmmakers wondered why a housewife would even need a nanny if she didn't have a day job or some kind of hobby to occupy her time like in the original ''Literature/MaryPoppins'' books. Incidentally, the song itself was a last minute addition. When Creator/GlynisJohns was offered a part in ''Mary Poppins'', she initially thought that they wanted her for the title role. To ease the embarrassment, Creator/WaltDisney promised that she would get her own musical number. Music/TheShermanBrothers then quickly rewrote the lyrics of a CutSong called "Practically Perfect," turning it into, "Sister Suffragette."
* ''Film/{{Suffragette}}'': A full film of them. They try protesting peacefully, but are ignored. It's only when they begin 'civil unrest' (actually destruction of property), they start to be taken seriously. Suffragettes are portrayed as [[{{Determinator}} determinators]]: they are arrested multiple times, Emily Davison throws herself in front of a horse and dies, they get beaten by police, they are force-fed (horrible torture) and they must sacrifice their family life. Emmeline Pankhurst appears as a HistoricalDomainCharacter.

* ''Film/TheGreatRace''. Maggie Dubois is a suffragette who wants to become the first female reporter for the New York Sentinel newspaper in order to promote women's rights, including the right to vote. She joins the race in order to get a great story and prove herself.

* Winifred Banks from ''Film/MaryPoppins'', the children's mother, is part of the "Sister Suffragette" group in the film's setting of 1910, and is often portrayed as often-distracted and too busy to take care of her family. She even gets a musical number about it! [[AdaptationExpansion This was a new creation of the film]], added specifically because the filmmakers wondered why a housewife would even need a nanny if she didn't have a day job or some kind of hobby to occupy her time like in the original ''Literature/MaryPoppins'' books. Incidentally, the song itself was a last minute addition. When Creator/GlynisJohns was offered a part in ''Mary Poppins'', she initially thought that they wanted her for the title role. To ease the embarrassment, Creator/WaltDisney promised that she would get her own musical number. Music/TheShermanBrothers then quickly rewrote the lyrics of a CutSong called "Practically Perfect," turning it into, "Sister Suffragette."

* ''Film/ThoseMagnificentMenInTheirFlyingMachines'': Patricia Rawnsley, the daughter of Lord Rawnsley. She has dreams of flying, and wants to fulfil them at any cost. She has a secret hideout on her father's estate, in which she hides her motorcycle, suffragette posters ("Give Women the Vote") and photos, and her tomboy clothes.

* Winifred Banks from ''Film/MaryPoppins'', the children's mother, is part of the "Sister Suffragette" group in the film's setting of 1910, and is often portrayed as often-distracted and too busy to take care of her family. She even gets a musical number about it! [[AdaptationExpansion This was a new creation of the film]], added specifically because the filmmakers wondered why a housewife would even need a nanny if she didn't have a day job or some kind of hobby to occupy her time like in the original ''Literature/MaryPoppins'' books. Incidentally, the song itself was a last minute addition. When Creator/GlynisJohns was offered a role in ''Mary Poppins'', she initially thought that they wanted her for the title role. To ease the embarrassment, Creator/WaltDisney promised that she would get her own musical number. Music/TheShermanBrothers then quickly rewrote the lyrics of a CutSong called "Practically Perfect," turning it into, "Sister Suffragette."

* Winifred Banks from ''Film/MaryPoppins'', the children's mother, is part of the "Sister Suffragette" group in the film's setting of 1910, and is often portrayed as often-distracted and too busy to take care of her family. She even gets a musical number about it! [[AdaptationExpansion This was a new creation of the film]], added specifically because the filmmakers wondered why a housewife would even need a nanny if she didn't have a day job or some kind of hobby to occupy her time like in the original ''Literature/MaryPoppins'' books.

At first, the Suffragette's fight is peaceful. She enjoys discussing her ideas, she gladly crosses swords with people who are opposed and she ''loves'' when she convinces someone to join her cause. She's likely to join a group of women of the same persuasion. They write and handout pamphlets or carry placards and banners. However, their peaceful political activism leads nowhere. Now Suffragettes fight with civil disobedience. Women start organizing noisy rallies, they chain themselves to iron railings and acts of vandalism like breaking windows are fair game. A particularly daredevil or desperate Suffragette might endanger her life and die a martyr. At this point, Suffragettes are considered militant and violent. They often get arrested and put in prison. Many of them go on hunger strike and are [[ForceFeeding force-fed]]. [[{{Understatement}} It ain't pretty]]. Suffragettes often sacrifice their personal happiness, love or family life for the cause. But they persist -- because they fight for their daughters and the next generations of women.

* Winifred Banks from ''Film/MaryPoppins'', the children's mother, is part of the "Sister Suffragette" group in the film's setting of 1910, and is often portrayed as often-distracted and too busy to take care of her family. She even gets a musical number about it! [[AdaptationExpansion This element wasn't present in]] the original ''Literature/MaryPoppins'' books, done specifically because the filmmakers wondered why a housewife would even need a nanny if she didn't have a day job or some kind of hobby to occupy her time.

* Winifred Banks from ''Film/MaryPoppins'', the children's mother, is part of the "Sister Suffragette" group in the film's setting of 1910. She even gets a musical number about it. The film portrays her as a cranky suffragette who is too busy to take care of her family and her friends are just as aloof.