Did Militancy Help the Suffragettes?

The militant acts of the suffragettes filled the papers but many supporters of the suffrage movement thought they were counter-productive. Public support for women's suffrage declined even though many people deplored the way suffragettes were treated in prison. ... Ten years later all women in Britain gained the vote.

Did militancy help or hinder the suffragettes?

I will contend in this article that militancy embraced a broad range of behaviours, both legal and illegal, that were central to the WSPU and that such action helped rather than hindered the granting of the parliamentary vote to some women in Britain in 1918.

What did militant suffragettes?

Militant suffragettes destroyed contents of letterboxes and smashed the windows of thousands of shops and offices. They cut telephone wires, burned down the houses of politicians and prominent members of society, set cricket pavilions alight and carved slogans into golf courses.