Francie: You need to do a little research on the struggle for women's suffrage. (OK, a lot of research). Those ladies were hell-raisers, especially in Britain. 

In the US, one of them, Alice Paul, organized demonstrations outside the White House in 1917. This culminated in the “Night of Terror” during which guards at Virginia’s Occoquan Workhouse brutally beat some 30 female picketers. At the time, Paul was serving a seven-month stint in prison, where she was force-fed and confined to a psychopathic ward. Others were tried and convicted of voter fraud. It was very messy.

http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/7-things-you-might-not-know-about-the-womens-suffrage-movement