When the first British women gained the right to vote, the celebrations were muted. The Great War was still raging in February 1918, and the suffragette movement itself had splintered over whether to pause its campaign during the hostilities. “The pageantry and rejoicing… which in prewar days would have greeted the victory, were absent when it came,” reflected Sylvia Pankhurst in her 1931 book The Suffragette Movement. “The sorrows of the world conflict precluded jubilations.”
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