Victorian life - Briti ajalugu
Women were prohibited from voting in the United Kingdom until the 1832 Reform Act and
the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act. Both before and after 1832, establishing women's
suffrage on some level was a political topic, although it would not be until 1872 that it would
become a national movement with the formation of the National Society for Women's
Suffrage and later the more influential National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
(NUWSS). Little victory was achieved in this constitutional campaign in its earlier years up to
around 1905. It was at this point that the militant campaign began with the formation of the
Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).
The WSPU was quite radical in their behaviour, as they wanted to get the right to vote as
quickly as possible. To illustrate their more militant stance, they adopted the slogan "Deeds,
not words".
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