Suffragettes 

4 creative works found

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  Surffragettes
  by Peter Kurdulija

  I googled the title of this image and was satisfied to learn there is no existing English word to match its meaning. I needed a new one anyway, to bear the significance of this symbolic scene on a moody spring day. My ‘surffragettes’ are heading home as the fun is pretty much over for the day, regardless of what your intentions may be, wetsuit or not, an outcome determined by the stormy and fast approaching South Island clouds. Not something to loose any sleep over these days, there will always be tomorrow. And this beautiful sight is about that long journey from social irrelevance to the exercise in unrestricted freedom, which is what a morning on the waves is, a path much lengthier than a daily trip from a holiday house to the froth laden pacific beach. A long voyage indeed. Take a moment to remember the ones who are still trying to make it.

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  Emmeline Pankhurst
  by Sophie Shapiro

  Emmeline Pankhurst was one of the founders of the British Suffragette movement. It is the name of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, more than any other, which is associated with the struggle for votes for women in the period immediately preceding World War I. She was born Emmeline Goulden in Manchester, England, in 1857 and married Richard Marsden Pankhurst, a barrister, in 1879. Mr Pankhurst was already a supporter of the women’s suffrage movement, and had been the author of the Married Women’s Property Acts of 1870 and 1882. In 1889, Mrs Pankhurst founded the Women’s Franchise League, but her campaign was not interrupted by her husband’s death in 1898. In 1903 she founded the better-known Women’s Social and Political Union, a militant movement whose members included the notorious Annie Kenney, the suffragette “martyr”, Emily Davison and the composer, Dame Ethel Smyth. She was joined in the movement by her daughters, Christabel and Sylvia, both of whom would make a substantial contribution to the campaign in different ways. Mrs Pankhurst’s tactics for drawing attention to the movement succeeded in getting her imprisoned several times, but, because of her high profile, she did not endure the same privations as many of her fellow suffragettes (though she did experience force-feeding after going on hunger strike). Her approach to the campaign did not endear her to everyone, and there were splits within the movement as a result. Her autobiography, My Own Story, was published in 1914. She died in 1928, having achieved the majority of her goals: the right to vote for women in the United Kingdom. Music – The Suffragettes This painting is dedicated to The Suffragetes / 13th January 2009

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  The Suffering
  by wendy kernan

  The Suffragette, Very Large Acrylic on Canvas – Framed with black frame, / Original artwork available for Sale $800. / This painting was created in 2008 for the 100 years celebration for women gaining the right to vote 1908 – 2008. / Purple as everyone knows is the royal colour. / It stands for the royal blood that flows in the veins of every suffragette, / the instinct of freedom and dignity…white stands for purity in private / and public life…green is the colour of hope and the emblem of spring.”

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  The Suffragette
  by wendy kernan

  The Suffragette was painted for the 100 years celebration for women gaining the right to vote in Victoria1908 – 2008, / Original artwork for Sale $800 – Very large acrylic apinting framed wtih black frame, Purple as everyone knows is the royal colour. / It stands for the royal blood that flows in the veins of every suffragette, / the instinct of freedom and dignity…white stands for purity in private / and public life…green is the colour of hope and the emblem of spring.”