List of monuments and memorials to women's suffrage
Women's suffrage refers to the right of a woman to vote in an election. This right was often not included in the original suffrage legislation of a state or country, resulting in both men and women campaigning to introduce legislation to enable women to vote. Actions included writing letters to newspapers and legislators, compiling petitions, holding marches and rallies and carrying out acts of violence. Women were on occasion arrested for these actions and held in jail, during which time some went on hunger strikes, refusing to eat for the duration of their incarceration.
Monuments and memorials to women's suffrage have been constructed around the world in recognition of the bravery and strength of the women who campaigned for voting rights, and the achievement of having the legislation passed.
Australia
Name | Location | Year | Notes |
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Statue of Emma Miller | Brisbane | 1993 | Commemorates the contribution of a leading suffragist |
Centenary of Western Australian Women's Suffrage Memorial | Perth | 1998 | Marks the centenary of women's suffrage in Western Australia |
Centenary of Women's Suffrage mural | Lake Grace | 1998 | Marks the centenary of women's suffrage in Western Australia |
Centenary of Women's Suffrage Gazebo | Kondinin | 1999 | Marks the centenary of women's suffrage in Western Australia |
Centenary of Women's Suffrage Commemorative Fountain | Canberra | 2003 | Marks the centenary of women's suffrage in Australia |
Resilience sculpture | Brisbane | 2007 | Marks the centenary of women's suffrage in Queensland |
Great Petition sculpture | Melbourne | 2008 | Marks the centenary of women's suffrage in Victoria |
Canada
Name | Location | Year | Notes |
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"Women are Persons!" | Ottawa | 2000 | Commemorates the five suffragists who filed and won the Persons Case, enabling women to be appointed to the Senate of Canada |
New Zealand
Name | Location | Year | Notes |
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Mural at Khartoum Place | Auckland | 1993 | Commemorates Auckland suffragists |
Kate Sheppard National Memorial | Christchurch | 1993 | Commemorates the lives of New Zealand's leading suffragists |
Puketapapa Women's Suffrage Memorial | Auckland | 2013 | Commemorates the local women suffragists of the community |
United Kingdom
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Name | Location | Year | Artist | Notes |
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Annie's Arboretum | Eagle House, Batheaston | 1909–1913 (destroyed in the 1960s) | Emily and Colonel Linley Blathwayt | Commemorated c. 60 suffragists and suffragettes |
The Suffrage Oak | Glasgow | 1918 | Scottish suffragists | Oak tree planted to mark the passing of the Representation of the People Act 1918. |
Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst Memorial | London | 1930 | Arthur George Walker | Commemorates the lives of two leading suffragists |
Suffragette Memorial | London | 1970 | Lorne McKean and Edwin Russell with Paul Paget | Commemorates the bravery of the suffragists |
The Pankhurst Parlour | Manchester | 1987 | — | Historical site and memorial |
Sylvia Pankhurst (artwork) | London | 2011 | ? | Commemorates the contribution of a leading suffragist |
Alice Hawkins (statue) | Leicester | 2018 | Sean Hedges-Quinn | Commemorates the life of a leading local suffragist |
Millicent Fawcett (statue) | London | 2018 | Gillian Wearing | Commemorates the contribution of a leading suffragist |
Emily Wilding Davison (statue) | Morpeth | 2018 | Ray Lonsdale | A welded steel statue portraying the suffragette tipping over a bowl of food, in reference to her hunger strike |
Rise up, Women (Emmeline Pankhurst statue) | Manchester | 2018 | Hazel Reeves | Commemorates the suffragettes' leader in the city of her birth |
Annie Kenney (statue) | Oldham | 2018 | Denise Dutton | Commemorates the only working-class woman to hold a senior position in the suffragette movement |
Bessie Watson (memorial plaque) | Edinburgh | 2019 | Commemorates the youngest Scottish girl (age 9) in the suffragette movement |
United States
Name | Location | Year | Notes |
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Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony | Washington, D.C. | 1921 | Commemorates the lives of leading suffragists of the United States |
Statue of Esther Hobart Morris | Cheyenne, Wyoming | 1953 | Commemorates the life of one of Wyoming's leading suffragists |
Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial | Saint Paul | 2000 | Commemorates the women who campaigned for the state legislature to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, to give women the right to vote. Minnesota was the 15th state to ratify the amendment, doing so in 1919. |
Tennessee Woman Suffrage Memorial | Knoxville | 2006 | Commemorates the women who campaigned for the state legislature to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, to give women the right to vote. Tennessee was the final state to ratify the amendment, doing so in 1920. |
Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument | Washington, D.C. | 2016 | Commemorates the headquarters of the National Woman's Party, a key political organization in the fight for women's suffrage, and two of its leaders, Alva Belmont and Alice Paul. |
Women's Rights Pioneers Monument | New York, New York | 2020 | Commemorates Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, and all of the women involved in the women's suffrage movement. This is the first statue in Central Park representing historical women and was organized by Monumental Women. |
Stand | Lexington, Kentucky, near the intersection of Vine and Mill Streets | 2020 | Statue by Barbara Grygutis celebrating the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The statue consists of the silhouettes of five generic, unnamed suffragists.[1] |
Turning Point Suffragist Memorial | Lorton, Virginia | 2021 | Monument to American suffragists that stands in close proximity to Occoquan Workhouse, a prison where 168 suffragists were held during the Silent Sentinels voting rights demonstrations in the late 1910s. |
On the Wings of Change | Chicago, Illinois | 2021 | Monument to suffrage leaders who worked in Chicago created by artist Diosa (Jasmina Cazacu) on the Wabash Arts Corridor. The ten women featured in the mural are: Jane Addams, Myra Bradwell, Mary Livermore, Catharine Waugh McCulloch, Agnes Nestor, Grace Wilbur Trout, Mary Fitzbutler Waring, Ida B. Wells, Frances Willard, and Fannie Barrier Williams.[2] |
Women's Suffrage National Monument | Washington, DC | TBD | Forthcoming monument authorized by a 2020 act of Congress. |
See also
- Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum, Adams, Massachusetts
- Susan B. Anthony Childhood House, Battenville, New York
- Susan B. Anthony House, Rochester, New York
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, Seneca Falls, New York
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, Tenafly, New Jersey
- Paulsdale, Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey, birthplace and childhood home of Alice Paul
- Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca County, New York
- M'Clintock House, site of the writing of the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments
- Wesleyan Methodist Church, site of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention
References
Bibliography
- McIntosh, Anthony (11 December 2018), Deeds Not Words: commemorating the women's suffrage movement through statues, Art UK, retrieved 18 December 2018
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- states
- Constitutional amendments: 15th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, 26th
- 1965 Voting Rights Act
(memorials)
- List of suffragists and suffragettes
- Timeline of women's suffrage
- Historiography of the Suffragettes
- Women's suffrage organizations and publications
- Women's rights activists
- Leser v. Garnett
- Belmont–Paul Monument
- Rise up, Women (Emmeline Pankhurst statue)
- Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst Memorial
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton statue
- Suffragette Memorial
- Portrait Monument
- Women's Rights Pioneers Monument
- Forward statue
- Kate Sheppard National Memorial
- Millicent Fawcett statue
- Great Petition (2008 sculpture)
- Centenary of Women's Suffrage Commemorative Fountain
- Resilience
- Turning Point Suffragist Memorial
- Eagle House
- Pankhurst Centre
- Paulsdale
- Suffragette Handkerchief
- Holloway banner
- Holloway brooch
- Holloway Jingles
- Hunger Strike Medal
- Justice Bell
- Suffrage jewellery
- Suffragette penny
- Suffrage Oak
- Women's Rights National Historical Park
- Women's Suffrage National Monument
- International Women's Day
- Susan B. Anthony Day
- Women's Equality Day
culture
- "The Women's Marseillaise"
- "The March of the Women" (1910 song)
- The Mother of Us All (1947 opera)
- "Sister Suffragette" (1964 song)
- Suffrage plays
- Women's suffrage in film
- Votes for Women (1912 film)
- Shoulder to Shoulder (1974 series)
- Not for Ourselves Alone (1999 documentary)
- Iron Jawed Angels (2004 film)
- Up the Women (2013 sitcom)
- Selma (2014 film)
- Suffragette (2015 film)
- Sylvia (2018 musical)
- Suffs (2022 musical)
- Lioness (upcoming film)
- Susan B. Anthony dollar
- New Zealand ten-dollar note
- Women's Suffrage Centennial silver dollar (2020 U.S. commemorative)
- 2020 US ten-dollar bill
- Art in the women's suffrage movement in the United States
- Music and women's suffrage in the United States