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“The British suffragettes were the most radical of all; led by the Pankhurst sisters, they had moved on to a revolutionary feminism marked by direct action. After 1911, as we have seen, active militancy had become a watchword, and in the first months of 1913 British suffragettes smashed shop windows in the West End with hammers hidden in their muffs, destroyed golf courses with acid, burned mailboxes, cut telegraph and telephone wires, broke into the royal greenhouses, posted pungent snuff to Members of Parliament, slashed several paintings in the Manchester Art Gallery, and set fire to empty trains. Then, on June 4, Emily Davidson ran on the tracks at the Epsom Derby toward the galloping horses, grabbed the reins of the king’s horse, and brought it down as it trampled her. She died a few days later, and the outrage was enormous. Davidson had been a militant suffragette just like Marsden before 1911; like her and many other suffragettes she had been jailed several times and forcibly fed through the nose. Her suicidal action captured headlines, and a huge funeral was organized in her honor.”

[Pg. 83-4 of Jean-Michel Rabate, 1913: The Cradle of Modernism]