The suffragette housemaid Finish:Single In mid-April 1868

In mid-April 1868

Left to right are Ronnie 'Plonk' Lane

Emil Jellinek

The yard is based on the length of a seconds pendulum (a pendulum whose period is precisely two seconds)

with a banquet at the Corporation's expense

The suffragette housemaid Finish:Single In mid-April 1868The suffragette housemaid, 1908. A suffragette wearing a pinafore advertising a protest on London's Victoria Embankment. The campaign to secure the vote for women in Britain saw women adopting a range of protests, direct action and civil disobedience, for which many were imprisoned. Partial suffrage was achieved in 1918, with all women finally gaining the right to vote ten years later, in 1928.