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The Story of Emily Davison: The Woman Who Died for the Right to Vote

Emily was angry. She worked as hard as any man, but she couldn`t change laws that affected her – laws made by men. Because women didn`t have the right to vote. She and the other suffragettes had patiently put their argument to the government, but they were ignored. Now it was time for direct action: arson, bricks through windows, hiding overnight in the House of Commons. Over and over again she was thrown into prison and brutally force-fed through an iron tube. Maybe it would take a suffragette death to bring the government to its senses. At the Derby race-course, as the King`s horse came pounding towards her, Emily was prepared to make the biggest sacrifice of all…

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