USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -She was a founder of the Women’s Suffrage League and became its secretary, the hardest working member. In 1894, the South Australian parliament passed an Act giving women the vote. (The Act became law in 1895, after Queen Victoria gave it her Royal Assent.)

Detailed explanation-2: -Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) became involved in women’s suffrage in 1880. She was a founding member of the WSPU in 1903 and led it until it disbanded in 1918. Under her leadership the WSPU was a highly organised group and like other members she was imprisoned and went on hunger strike protests.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mary Lee was a South Australian suffragist and social reformer. Along with Mary Colton, she established the Women’s Suffrage League.

Detailed explanation-4: -The most influential South Australian group, the Women’s Suffrage League, was established by Mary Lee and Mary Colton and later joined by well-known social reformer Catherine Helen Spence. Female suffragists struggled against prejudicial traditional views of women that were embedded in society and the law.