{"id":21377,"date":"2013-07-29T12:35:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T20:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=21377"},"modified":"2013-07-31T21:38:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T05:38:15","slug":"emily-wilding-davison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=21377","title":{"rendered":"Emily Wilding Davison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-21382\" href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=21382\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21382\" title=\"Emily Davison\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Emily-Davison1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Emily-Davison1.jpg 470w, https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Emily-Davison1-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>from<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/moreintelligentlife.com\/content\/ideas\/kassia-st-clair\/suffragettes-legacy\">Intelligent Life<\/a>,<\/strong> May\/June, 2013<\/p>\n<p>by Kassia St Clair<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One hundred years ago, a suffragette was trampled under the King&#8217;s horse at the Derby at Epsom, and, four days later, she died. While history has favoured her cause, Emily Wilding Davison&#8217;s legacy is ambivalent. In the short term her death probably did the women&#8217;s suffrage movement more harm than good. It is still unclear if she meant to martyr herself, or whether she was just hoping to disrupt the race and grab a little publicity, much like Trenton Oldfield at the Oxford-Cambridge boat race last year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In 1913 the public&#8217;s response was as unfavourable as it was with Oldfield. Crowds thronged the roads to jeer as Davison was taken to hospital. The<em>Times<\/em> ran a disapproving headline\u2014&#8221;The Suffragist Scene: His Majesty&#8217;s Jockey Injured&#8221;\u2014and King George V himself was principally concerned with his horse&#8217;s bruised shins.<\/p>\n<p>While the Epsom racecourse saw the need to commemorate the centenary, they have struggled to, as they put it, &#8220;provide an appropriate response&#8221;. At a ceremony in April, they unveiled a softly-softly worded plaque, fixed to the rail where Davison slipped onto the course. Pressure to have a minute&#8217;s silence on race day has been resisted, although there will be a two-page feature in the race card.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>thanks, Laura for sending me this story.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Intelligent Life, May\/June, 2013 by Kassia St Clair One hundred years ago, a suffragette was trampled under the King&#8217;s horse at the Derby at Epsom, and, four days later, she died. While history has favoured her cause, Emily Wilding Davison&#8217;s legacy is ambivalent. In the short term her death probably did the women&#8217;s suffrage [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1266],"tags":[1401,1402],"class_list":["post-21377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-moments-in-history","tag-derby-epsom","tag-emily-wilding-davison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21377"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21658,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21377\/revisions\/21658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}