1.10

The Suffragette
13 June 1913

1.30

Daily Mail
5 June 1913

1.50

Daily Graphic
5 June 1913

The strangest race ever run for the Derby Stakes at Epsom was decided yesterday. The King's horse, Anmer, was obstructed and brought down by a militant suffragette who rushed out at Tattenham Corner ... The woman is a notorious Suffragette named Emily Wilding Davison.

2.47

Daily Mail
5 June 1913

WHAT THE DERBY SUFFRAGETTE HAS DONE

Miss Davison is the hottest of all Suffragette 'Hot-Bloods' ... and joined the militants in around 1900. Since then she has ...

• Hidden herself three times in the House of Commons, once in a hot air shaft.
• Been imprisoned nine times.
• Started a fire in the General Post Office.
• Gained her freedom from prison by hunger-striking three times.
• Barricaded herself in a prison cell and had the fire hose played upon her.
• Set fire to pillar-boxes.
• Attempted to commit suicide by throwing herself downstairs in prison as a protest against forcible feeding.

3.44

The Times
5 June 1913

A deed of this kind, we need hardly say, is not likely to increase the popularity of any cause with the ordinary public. Reckless fanaticism is not regarded by them as a qualification for the franchise. ... They say that the persons who wantonly destroy property and endanger innocent lives must be either desperately wicked or entirely unbalanced.

4.09

Punch
4 June 1913

Militant Suffragist after long and futile efforts to light a fire for her tea-kettle. 'And to think that only yesterday I burnt down two pavilions and a church!'

4.28

Gentleman's Journal
17 May 1913

VOTES FOR BABIES

Now that it is pretty well assured that women will vote, it is time to arouse public sentiment in favour of Votes for Babies. The awful state of our Government shouts aloud for the infant suffrage ... Let the babies vote! ... For that matter let the cows vote.

5.07

The Suffragette
13 June 1913

5.27

The Suffragette
13 June 1913

Millions of people, not only in our own country but in other countries too, had their attentions riveted upon the race. It was an unsurpassable opportunity of proclaiming to a whole world, heedless, perhaps until then, that women claim citizenship and human rights. Miss Davison seized the opportunity, and with an amazing and incredible courage made a protest which has fired the imagination and touched the hearts of the people. Her act has proved to be an appeal infinitely more eloquent than all the words of all the speeches could be. ... She has taught the world that there are women who care so passionately for the vote and all it means that they are willing to die for it.

6.17

Manchester Guardian
16 June 1913

IMPRESSIVE LONDON PROCESSION

The procession, which was an impressive pageant, was watched by dense crowds ... Nearly five thousand members from all parts of the country marched in undisturbed quiet and orderliness behind the coffin. Perhaps what impressed the London mind in it all was the note of colour. Among the women who walked there were hundreds dressed in black, but at the head was a young girl in yellow silk carrying a gilt cross.

6.40

Morning Post
16 June 1913

The effect was gracious and dignified. Banners displayed the sentiments of those taking part in the procession who must have numbered some thousands.

6.52

Sunday Times
15 June 1913

In some respects it was the most remarkable funeral procession London has ever seen. It was a tribute of women to a woman who, in their eyes at least, had achieved martyrdom for the cause which they all represent... No one would grudge to the memory of Emily Wilding Davison any part of that tribute of honour and respect which her fellow women Suffragettes have desired to render at her obsequies ... She was herself the most unassuming and the gentlest of creatures, though she possessed a spirit capable of heroic deed and sacrifice.

7.47

The Gentlewoman
7 June 1913

7.56

Woman's Own
1 May 1913

... the real value of the home-loving woman ... We know she is clever, and that she has a vast knowledge of cooking, sewing, crocheting and home-managing.

8.21

The Standard
14 June 1913

A WOMAN'S PROTEST

Sir - Sorry as we are that Miss Davison lost her life, we do not consider her a martyr to anything but folly. Nor have we more reverence for her memory than for that of any other woman who commits suicide by throwing herself into danger.

Yours truly, A WOMAN