You will not learn the truth about the suffragettes from any history books in school. Recently, I have been reading “The Secrets of Heathersleigh Hall” series which is historical fiction. The author, Michael Phillips, tells the truth about these rebellious women in the second book in the series “Wayward Winds.” Here are some quotes from his book and if you research what he wrote, it all turns out to be true. 

With the coming of the year 1912, the suffragette movement stepped up to a new level of militancy. By now the movement was taking in over £30,000 annually and had thousands of loyal soldiers to carry out the Pankhursts’ orders. That men were also involved was evidenced by the fact that Mr. Pethick-Lawrence had not only taken his wife’s name, but was now actively involved helping to run the organization, and spent most of his own inheritance paying suffragette fines.

Throughout the room now echoed the shattering of a dozen priceless artifacts, mingled with the guard’s angry voice as he ran into the room. Shouts of “Votes for women!” and “End male domination!” sounded along with continuing wreckage.

The well-known business establishments of Swears and Wells, Hope Brothers, Cooks, Swan and Edgar, Marshall and Snelgrove, and many others were assaulted by the hammers and stones of the suffragettes. Emmeline Pankhurst herself, with two of her associates, had managed to hurl four stones from a taxi through the prime minister’s windows in Downing Street, before making a temporary getaway.

Meanwhile, from Paris, Christabel urged the battle forward. Nothing in England was safe. Britain’s golfing enthusiasts now felt the suffragette wrath, discovering the words VOTES FOR WOMEN burned in acid across their greens, and teeing up to discover the flags on the pins replaced by purple suffragette banners.

Government officials were harrassed, accosted, heckled, even at-tacked. Incidents of arson increased everywhere. At first the women found empty houses in the country to burn, but gradually the tactics grew more dangerous and disturbing, with far-reaching effects everywhere.

She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house.
Proverbs 7:11

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