Suffragette, probably Edith Splatt, speaking to sparse group of people from a Newton Abbot cart - c1913
Devon was a hotbed of the suffrage movement - with its leader Emmeline Pankhurst actually held in Exeter Prison. But there were many other incredible stories, and we look in detail at some of them below. One of them was activist Edith Splatt, who wrote for the Express and Echo in Exeter. She conducted a one woman protest about fares on the trams when she found that women and girls going to work were not allowed to buy a cheap ‘workman’s ticket’. Edith and these 100 other women did not just attend meetings: they ran them, made speeches from the back of horse-drawn carts, lobbied MPs, went on protest marches, refused to pay their taxes, hid from the census officers, heckled cabinet ministers and even committed arson - DevonLive
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