The Women's Franchise Declaration Committee inaugurated a suffrage petition; CB served as the committee's honorary secretary.

Janet turns to suffrage politics in frustration with her life of service to her husband, a very traditional clergyman. Their son Denis meets and falls in love with Ruth when both are Oxford undergraduates (Ruth attends Drayton College, the fictional version of Somerville which VB had already invented). Janet conceives a passion for Ellison (who returns only friendship), leaves her husband, turns to acts of political violence like trying to burn down his church (which her son Denis prevents), and dies of peritonitis alone in London. Through the upheaval of the great war, Ruth learns about topics that Janet was ignorant of, like sexual feeling (learned from a visiting American with a fiancée back home), birth control, and homosexuality. She is able to be a better wife and mother than Janet was because of her new knowledge, but according to critic Leonardi she lacks any female community and still sees life as revolving around a man. (At the same time Ellison's plays lack something because of the absence of a man in her life.)

The talk was entitled The Progress of Public Opinion on the Land Question, Election Ballot, and Manhood Suffrage; State-aid, Payment of Members, the Land League. Among the audience of three or four hundred were prominent politicians, including Premier Charles Cowper and Lands Minister Jack Robertson . CC began by noting that although certain people believed women ought not to have opinions on political matters, she herself had seen good cause to adopt certain well-defined political opinions and urged other women to do the same. The central topic she discussed, and endorsed, was the 1858 New South Wales Electoral Act which introduced Universal Manhood Suffrage to the colony.

AW 's home in Hampstead became an informal salon. She hosted musical events, garden entertainments, and talks on women's suffrage.

The young Alice, whose parents were conservatives, thought socialism romantic. She later wrote, I walked in the suffrage processions, but we thought of it as Romantic and Historical.

Another aunt, Philippa (Pippa) Strachey was like other women in the family a committed suffrage leader and writer.

MS 's mother was Charlotte (Carmichael) Stopes (1841-1929), an active feminist and a publishing freelance scholar. She campaigned for women's suffrage and as well as her academic writing published children's stories on the one hand and polemics about women on the other. Charlotte Stopes was the first woman in Scotland to earn a University Certificate. She was harsh as a mother, parsimonious with praise but willing to inculcate religious fears.

In London in 1905, GS joined the Fabian Society . (There is no record of her having joined any women's suffrage organisations.)

At the request of John Stuart Mill , MS was the first to sign his new parliamentary petition for women's suffrage .

Her interest in labour politics and women's rights, including the suffrage campaign, continued throughout her life. In 1884 she publicly reprimanded ladies who work among the poor [who] think it right to save their money for charity and buy cheap costumes, made far off by the same sisterhood. By supporting unfair trade, even while supporting charity, she argued, they become parties to more oppression than the district visiting of a lifetime can atone.

AS , like her sister Louisa , became actively interested in social questions concerning the position of women. She supported the struggle for the suffrage, and her name was one of the six hundred that appeared July 1889, as representative of an even greater number, with the combative Women's Suffrage: A Reply in the Fortnightly Review. It was she who took the lead in publishing the work of herself and of Louisa, and of seeing Louisa's work reissued following her death.

Her Women's Rights Versus Women's Wrongs was a response to Marion Bernstein 's call in the same paper for female suffrage, which in this poem JR did not support. It provoked in turn a response from Bernstein claiming that Woman Suffrage / Soon would find a cure for all. Persuaded, Russell published a Recantation in which she promised to join the fight for the vote.

HHR began subscribing to the periodical Votes for Women (the journal of the Women's Social and Political Union ) in 1909 (two years after it was launched), and to The Suffragette in 1912. Her interest was strongly engaged by the cause of women's suffrage—not surprisingly, since the Woman Question was invigoratingly canvassed by the European writers who had shaped her thinking. She marched in most of the major suffrage processions organised by the WSPU in London, while her husband joined sympathising male organisations. (She also took personal action against cruelty to horses working in the streets.) Through her, her sister became a more radical suffragette than herself. Lillian was imprisoned in Holloway for damage to a post office in 1912, and invited Sylvia Pankhurst to speak in her house in Germany in 1914, when Pankhurst was prohibited from addressing a German audience at public meetings.HHR was certain, she wrote, that every broken window & burnt house takes [women] a few steps further from the harem & the veil.

During this period, Richardson also became involved in the suffrage cause. She visited her friend Leslie-Jones at Holloway Prison after the latter was arrested during the Easter Sunday march of 1907. In a letter to another friend, Peggy Kirkaldy , in 1928 DR notes that for some time the suffrage cause diverted me from all else, but no specific information on her suffragism is currently available.

BRP 's son, Joseph Hilaire Pierre René , generally known as Hilaire Belloc (but to his family as Hilary), was born on 27 July 1870, just before the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war. He too became a writer and an ardent Catholic, but in contrast to his mother he developed into an anti-feminist, strongly opposed to female suffrage and higher education for women.

After Women and Economics and its translations had made Charlotte Perkins famous in Europe, she was invited to speak in Berlin in 1904. She enjoyed her visit there, as well as time spent in Rome (where her daughter was living) and other places in Italy. In February 1905 she was off again, to London, Holland, Germany again, Austria, and Hungary. A final European trip in 1913 took her as a delegate to the Congress of the International Women's Suffrage Alliance in Budapest that June.

However evasive she may have been about her personal life, GH expressed strong views and was known to have warned: Don't you get thinking this is a fair world for women, because it isn't. Although a self-confessed bluestocking, she hated suffrage demonstrations and women with a magnified sense of their own importance (the kind of women she apparently associated with the suffrage struggle).

Critic John Sutherland says that in later life JOH was a member of the Anti-Suffrage League . While neither Margaret Maison nor Mildred Davis Harding confirm this, they both quote from a letter she wrote to William Francis Brown , apparently on 22 March 1906 (Harding dates it 2 March 1906), where she says: Women won't accept their absolute dependence on men. . . . That is why I am dead against Women's Colleges, Clubs, Suffrage and the like. They make each other wretched and they are, as influences on each other, utterly sterilizing and devitalizing.

MH 's devotion to women's causes lasted her life through. Around 29 January 1879 something moved her to declare her allegiance on a sheet of paper now in the National Library of Scotland : I entirely sympathise with the movement to obtain Female Suffrage.

Over the years she reported to the WIL on a wide variety of issues—League of Nations and International Labour Organization work, disarmament initiatives, the pay equity drive by women teachers in Britain, and suffrage campaigns around the world, to name but a few.

AJ was a convinced and effective supporter of most reformist causes of her day. During the 1770s she reprobated the design of coercing the American colonies,, and supported parliamentary reform, liberty for Ireland, toleration (and the vote) for Roman Catholics, and the abolition of slavery. As regards suffrage, she looked on parliamentary representation as the only effectual safeguard of [the people's] sacred rights. She was later a supporter of the French Revolution, and she came to believe in universal suffrage. (She may have meant by this universal male suffrage, as most of her contemporaries would have done, but in view of her husband's strong statement about gender equality in his Theological Propositions and Miscellaneous Observations, it is just possible that she was a suffragist in the feminist sense before her time.)