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Cover of the June 13, 1913[1] issue of The Suffragette, a British women's suffrage newsletter. The cover shows an etching of feminist activist Emily Wilding Davison, who was trampled to death the week before while crossing the track of the Epsom Derby in what was either a publicity stunt or a suicide.
Suffragette was the second official paper of the Women's Social and Political Union, edited by WSPU founder Christabel Pankhurst. It replaced the paper Votes for Women when the WSPU became more militant in 1912.
Certain classes of women gained the right to vote in the UK in 1918, and universal suffrage was granted in 1925.
