And again it must be remembered that the Suffragettes were for White Middle Class and above votes.

Sylvia Pankhurst was an unusual case and should be treated as such, her correspondence with Lenin was quite interesting.

Also, Sylvia Pankhurst and her group were among the most militant, but she did not support the war and campaigned hard for working class women to get the vote. Also, after women’s universal suffrage came in, she continued on other campaigns, including against racism and British colonialism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette

And yes the Suffragettes really were something, in order to fight for middle class white women’s right to vote they chained themselves to railings, whipped MP’s, went on hunger strike in prison and were force fed (by a hosepipe down the gullet resulting in deaths if it went down the wrong pipe), Emily Wilding Davidson threw herself under the king’s horse at a race and was killed. They smashed windows, destroyed property and generally set back the cause of women’s suffrage in Britain. Yet today they are celebrated campaigners for women’s rights ignoring how limited they wanted the vote to be and that when WWI started they all supported the war effort showing how feeble their commitment to winning votes was.