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Abstract:

In the 19 ^th century, the struggle of women in the world to achieve the right to vote began to take place gradually in an organized way, first in the UK and then in the United States in particular. However, the recognition of this issue had its roots in England was with, Vindication of the Rights of Woman, written by Mary Wollstonecraft in 1792. It formed the basis for the ideas of women’s political rights that would become increasingly stronger in the 19 ^th century. In 1851, John Stuart Mill and his wife, Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858) who was a powerful women’s rights advocate, first published an article in 1850 called “The Enfranchisement of Women” on the right to vote, and later on in 1861 by publishing the article called “Subjection of Women” (Women’s Addiction) for women to have equal political rights with men. In 1866, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917), Britain’s first gynecologist and surgeon, gathered 1,500 signatures for women to have the right to vote and played an important role in the end of the 19 ^th century, in which British women gained various political rights under certain circumstances. The nation-wide movement of British women brought together large masses of women from various classes for the same purpose in the early 20 ^th century. In 1903, Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters, Christabel and Sylvia, set up the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), attempting to raise awareness in society by taking action on the streets to gain women’s political rights. These actions, which they started using physical force, resulted in the fact that every English woman who turned 30 in 1918 had the right to vote and 10 years later she played an active role in bringing women’s political rights to the same level as men. Reflections of these events, which took their place as English Suffragette Movement in history, are also seen in literature. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the struggle of women to achieve their political liberation in Suffragette Sally (1911) written by Gertrude Colmore from the perspective of the protagonist Sally Simmonds, who is first a simple maid but then turns to be a strong activist with the suffragettes who fight against the patriarchal system and who come together to form a strength against the established norms of the society