The suffragette housemaid Finish:Single In mid-April 1868

In mid-April 1868

View of the opening of the new Blackfriars Bridge by Queen Victoria from the south bank of the River Thames

View of All Hallows the Great

with a banquet at the Corporation's expense

The suffragette housemaid Finish:Single In mid-April 1868The suffragette housemaid, 1908. A suffragette wearing a pinafore advertising a protest on London's Victoria Embankment. The campaign to secure the vote for women in Britain saw women adopting a range of protests, direct action and civil disobedience, for which many were imprisoned. Partial suffrage was achieved in 1918, with all women finally gaining the right to vote ten years later, in 1928.