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Role of Suffragettes in Britain

the Quakers in the 1840s through the formal proposal presented on their behalf by John Stuart Mill in Parliament in 1867 and thereafter, women suffragists asked only that they be granted the same rights as men with respect to the vote. The failure of the suffragists to press earlier for universal suffrage may have limited their appeal to Liberal and later Labour Party leaders who saw their demands as likely to increase the influence of the Conservatives.

From the time she and a number of other middle class women and men formed the Manchester Society for Women's Suffrage in 1866 and until her death in 1890, Miss Lydia Becker led the movement. Her tactics were intellectual and peaceful, journal articles, petitions to Parliament, and public meetings. The movement succeeded in winning the franchise for women to vote in municipal elections and to serve in various local capacities, as elected school board and later borough officials and mayors as well as in appointed posts such as Poor Law Guardians and in the civil service. They could not, however, vote o

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