TS/ TL/ 1eres : Suffragette Official UK Trailer #1 (2015) - Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep...

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Carey Mulligan plays Suffragette's central character, the fictional Maud Watts. Watts's story came together after Suffragette's creators learned about the many working-class women who fought for the right to vote. One woman who inspired them was Hannah Webster Mitchell.
Born to a poor family in 1872, Mitchell grew up resenting unfair treatment such as being made to darn her brothers' socks while they got to relax. However, as an adult she initially considered the fight for female suffrage a middle-class issue: as there was a property requirement for voters, expanding the franchise would do little for women like her.
Instead, Mitchell, who'd worked as a domestic servant and seamstress, devoted her energies to the Independent Labour Party — until she came to feel that the ILP was more focused on universal male suffrage. By 1904, Mitchell had joined the Women's Social and Political Union, the group headed by Emmeline Pankhurst whose members became known as suffragettes.
After disrupting a political meeting in 1906, Mitchell was charged with obstruction and given a three-day sentence. Working-class suffragettes with family obligations often found spending time in custody to be difficult — unlike most middle and upper-class women, they had no servants to handle cooking and cleaning while they were away. Mitchell was no exception to this rule — though her husband was a Socialist, he ignored her wishes and paid her fine so she could leave jail after one day. As she noted in her autobiography, The Hard Way Up: "Most of us who were married found that "Votes for Women" were of less interest to our husbands than their own dinners. They simply could not understand why we made such a fuss about it."
Mitchell left the WSPU in 1907 — in part because she was hurt that Pankhurst didn't visit when she was recovering from a breakdown — but continued to fight for suffrage with the Women's Freedom League.

Emmeline Pankhurst

The real-life character of Emmeline Pankhurst, portrayed by Meryl Streep, appears in Suffragette. Though Pankhurst is seen on screen for just a few minutes, she's a symbol of inspiration for many of the film's characters — just as Pankhurst inspired suffragettes in real life.

Emmeline Pankhurst. (Photo: Copyright by Matzene, Chicago. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)

In 1903, when she was a 45-year-old widow, Pankhurst founded the WSPU, whose slogan became "deeds not words." In her work for the group, she gave speeches that encouraged militant action. She declared in 1913, "Militancy has brought woman suffrage where we want it, that is, to the forefront of practical politics. That's the justification for it."
Between 1908 and 1914, Pankhurst was imprisoned 13 times. She would be released after going on hunger strikes, but the police pursued her again once her health had recovered. This cycle only ended with the advent of World War I, when Pankhurst directed WSPU members to support the war effort. In 1918, after the war, Pankhurst was pleased to see women granted limited suffrage.

Women and men were finally granted equal voting rights in the United Kingdom in 1928.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92mWQEkB6oU ( full movie)