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Was the suffrage movement middle class? The movement for the women's vote early in this century is often seen as a middle class phenomenon, not relevant to the "real stuff" of politics and dominated by the Pankhurst family (Emmeline, Christabel, Sylvia and Adela) to the exclusion of other activists. It was not only a struggle for women to gain the right to vote and express themselves as full political citizens, but also a struggle to unite women of all classes. For women of the time in Britain, campaigning for the vote represented the desire to break free of the Victorian mold, which required women to remain in the domestic sphere, far from the political activity. By rejecting Victorian ideals and becoming more involved in the public sphere of politics, British women transformed themselves as well as British politics. The women that emerged from this era was not only educated and a...

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