Left a widow and childless after the yellow fever epidemic of Memphis in 1867, and homeless after the Great Fire of Chicago in 1871, Mother Jones began her fifty-year fight for the rights of workers. She participated in her first coal strike in Norton, Virginia, in 1891, and dedicated much of her time after that to fighting for better working conditions and wages for miners. Despite her lifelong fight for social justice for working men, Mother Jones was steadfastly opposed to women's suffrage.

John Wilkes , in a plan for parliamentary reform, put forward a proposal for universal male suffrage; Richard Price had recently, in Observations on Civil Liberty, also proposed abolishing the House of Lords .

Suffragist and biographer Lady Frances Balfour (née Campbell) published Ne Obliviscaris. Dinna Forget, her memoir of the fight for women' suffrage, titled from the Campbell clan motto.

Charlotte Despard edited the first issue of The Vote: Organ of the Women's Freedom League, a weekly magazine from London covering a range of feminist issues, including suffrage.

Member of Parliament Keir Hardie introduced a resolution on women's suffrage.

The International Council of Women met in Berlin and formed the International Woman Suffrage Alliance ; Carrie Chapman Catt became its first President.

Labour came in twenty-six votes ahead of the Conservatives in the first general election with full women's suffrage: the prospect of voting by women under thirty brought the demeaning nickname of the Flapper Election. Eleanor Rathbone was elected as the first Independent woman Member of Parliament.

2,200 people signed the Women's Co-operative Guild 's (WCG) national petition for women's suffrage.

The Irish Women's Franchise League , in the Irish Citizen, criticized the recently-formed Cumann na mBan for placing nationalism before women's suffrage.

Keller had no language until, when she was seven, her teacher Anne Sullivan (who was herself near-blind) taught her to understand the word water by linking the symbol for it with holding her hand under a water-pump. Keller went on to become a scholar of languages, to graduate from Radcliffe College , and eventually to visit countries all over the world as an ambassador for radical and feminist political causes, including those of suffrage and birth control. The phenomenally popular autobiography may have played its part in keeping public interest focussed on her early struggles to the exclusion of her adult work.

The Daily News held a London Sweated Industries Exhibition: since women made up a disproportionate segment of this workforce, the exhibition and its catalogue were important to suffrage as well as labour activists.

John Redmond , leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party , told Irish Women's Franchise League members that he would not promote women's suffrage as it would give the clergy more power.

Women from other Irish suffrage groups were also incarcerated during this time.

The motion to reject the Bill was made by Arnold Ward , son of novelist Mary Augusta Ward , herself a major figure in the anti-suffrage campaign.

The Coming Day, a suffragette periodical from the Free Church League for Women's Suffrage, began monthly publication in London.

Stanton, whom a recent commentator thinks the leading intellectual of the nineteenth-century [US] women's rights movement and a drastically under-recognized political thinker, objected to the Church's anti-feminist interpretations of the Bible. This critique, her most daring venture, alarmed even her allies at a time when suffrage campaigners were trying to present their cause as non-threatening.

The first international conference on women's suffrage was held in Washington, DC; it brought together members of the International Council of Women and the National Council of Women .

The East London Federation of Suffragettes changed its name to the Workers' Suffrage Federation .

According to suffrage historian Leslie Parker Hume, The Speaker's ruling and the subsequent action of the Cabinet caused an uproar both inside and outside the House of Commons.

The Society issued questions quarterly; members' written responses were circulated in advance of discussion. In spring of 1868 the Kensington Society dissolved, having been replaced in large part by bodies such as suffrage groups and newly formed professional associations for women.

Bennett also assumed leadership of the Irish Women Workers Union in 1916. She was an important link between labour and suffrage movements.

Jacob Bright introduced an unsuccessful women's suffrage bill in the House of Commons ; it was the first time female enfranchisement was considered as an issue unto itself.

Liberal leader Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman , a known supporter of women's suffrage, formed the government of the UK, following the surprise resignation of Conservative Arthur James Balfour .

A march in London was held in support of the Conciliation Bill; originally proposed by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies , it was eventually taken over by the Women's Social and Political Union .