Suffragettes is a movie, released in
2015. This movie shows an original story, it was created from official
documents and testimonies.
The story is set in
England, at the time when women fought for her right to vote. At the time, in 1918, just after the first world war, the women began to fight because during the world war she worked and took decisions but she couldn't express their opinions about politics.
The main character is Maud Watts,
she is a fiction character but she
symbolizes all women who
fought for her right, also called 'the suffragettes' .
One of the others characters is
Emmeline Pankhurst, she is a real characterof history. E. Pankhurst gave
speeches for encouraged women to rebell, during the war, she imprisoned 13
times.
This is a real Emmeline Pankhurst
and the actress Meryl Streep who plays her role.
The movie is also inspired by others
women like Emily Wilding Davison, Olive Hockin, Edith Garrud, Barbara and
Gerald Gould... these women had an important role in the history of the right to
vote in England.
Finally, women over 30 years old got the right to vote at the end of the war, in 1918. And in 1928, or ten year
after, this was extended to all women over the age of 21. While in France the women got this right just
at the end of the second world war after also many battles, in 1944.
There are two website about the
movie and the right to vote :
- http://www.biography.com/news/suffragette-movie-history
by Aiyana
