ID: 9719  -  Valerio Massimo De Angelis  -  Macerata Type: Image Format: Medium: Digital File/jpg Extent: 31 KB Identifier: Miss Davison Source: Daily Herald (1914) Title: Miss Davison Subtitle: Alternative: Agents: Creator: Dyson, Will Role: Author Name: Dyson, Will Created: 1914 Date: Issued in/on: 1914 Language: English Rights: Relation: IsPartOf Qualifier: Daily Herald Coverage: Place: London Time: 1914 Description: Satirical vignette portraying suffragette activist and martyr Emily Davison as a skeleton carrying a Votes for Women sandwich sign Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Wo/Men Keywords: Davison, Emily Wilding Keywords: suffragism Keywords: martyrdom Keywords: anti-feminism Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Davison, Emily Wilding) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, suffragism) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, martyrdom) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, anti-feminism) Comment: Emily Davison was the first martyr of the "Vote for Women" Cause. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union since 1906, she gradually became convinced that the movement needed a martyr to make public opinion aware of how much resolute and deperate at the same time women were in their fight for the right to vote. In June, 1913, at the most important race of the year, the Derby, Emily Davison ran out on the course and attempted to grab the bridle of a horse owned by King George V. The horse hit Emily on the head and she died without regaining consciousness. The vignette is an attempt to devalue Davison's fate by exasperating her supposed death wish, and by implication the movement's (self-)destructive attitude. As a matter of fact, some days before Davison explicitly stated that the moment of martyrdom was finally arrived. See record 8574.