TASK TWO
Watch the following video about another important woman who became sadly famous in the suffragettes' fight.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G4fJ9I_wQg
To help you understand the video, here you have the corresponding script:
Suffragette Emily Davison Killed - 100th Anniversary
One hundred years ago, Britain's greatest national event was stopped in its tracks by a very public, very shocking, fatal act of protest. At the height of the 1913 Epson Derby, in front of thousands of spectators, a lone figure walked into the path of the galloping horses. What happened next was captured on film in horrific detail.
The woman in this footage was Emily Wilding Davison. She was a suffragette and she climbed underneath the running rail into the path of the king´s horse.
June, the 4th, 1913 , the biggest event of the lot was Derby day. Hundreds of thousands of people headed for Epson Dance. It was one of the few occasions where all social classes mixed together; dukes wrapped shoulders with dustmen. Royalty was separated from the common people by just the width of a race track. The King and Queen arrived to see their horse, Anma, in the big race. Emily knew that the eyes of the world and the lenses of the news real cameramen would be focused on Epson.
It transformed 40-year-old activist Emily Davison from a big part player in the votes for women campaign into perhaps the most famous suffragette of all.
Emily joined the suffragettes in 1906, just as the organization was becoming more radical.
In 1908 she was a marshall at a protest in High park that attracted as many as 700.000 people. In 1909 she was arrested for trying to storm the House of Commons. She was now part of a large network of freelance militants engaged in repeated acts of criminality.
Suffragette militant, she was now seen as a real threat to society.
The goverment imprisoned more than one thousand militant suffragettes. Emily Davison went to prison 9 times for her cause for offences that ranged from breaking windows to firebombing letter boxes. Now a new militancy that included fireracing and bombings were seen as the only answer. The radicals felt they had nothing to lose. Violent militancy escalated.
After nine prison sentences weakened by hunger striking and forty nine episodes of forced feeding, Emily was perhaps coming to believe that one final desperate act might produce a result. Now with the prison record she was broke and unemployable. A radicalized woman with nothing to lose, champion in a cause with everything to gain, was about to commit an act that would be seered into a social history. On Derby day, June the 4th, 1913 a horrifying act was captured on 3 news real cameras. After 100 years it might be possible to reveal what Emily´s intentions actually were. Using the 3 camera angles the team has pinpointed Emily´s position on the course. This introduces an intriguing possibility. Emily had only 4 seconds between ducking under the rail and being bowld over.
A forensic examination has highlighted something in her hands that provides an explanation.
She wasnt trying to bring down the king´s horse at all. She was hoping to attach something to it: a scarf.
Emily Davison's death provoked a complex reaction.
I have come to the women´s library to look at the hate mail Emily received while she laid dying.
"Miss Davison, I am glad to hear you are in hospital. I hope you suffer torture until you die."
"You idiot (underlined). I consider you are a person unworthy of existence in this world and should like the opportunity of starving, and beating you to appall .Why dont your people find an asylum for you?
Yours, an English man
Emily was taken to the Cotish hospital in Epson. She never came out of the coma into which she had fallen and she died four days later. The coronist verdict was accidental death
Her funeral contained all the pomp of a state ocassion. Thousands of suffraggettes acompanied the coffin. Tens of thousands of people lined the streets of London.
Emily had become what she perhaps desired and what the movement needed: the first martyr for the cause.
What do you think it happened?
Write an essay explaining the story of Emily W. Davison, following these prompts: (this shouldn't take you more than 2 sessions)
1.- Who was she?. Give a few details about her life.
2.- What happened on June, the 4th, 1913 at the Epson Derby?
3.- What was Emily trying to do when she was stamped by the horse?
3.- What did Emily become after this event?
4.- Do you think she killed herself or it was an accident?
Watch the following video about another important woman who became sadly famous in the suffragettes' fight.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G4fJ9I_wQg
To help you understand the video, here you have the corresponding script:
Suffragette Emily Davison Killed - 100th Anniversary
One hundred years ago, Britain's greatest national event was stopped in its tracks by a very public, very shocking, fatal act of protest. At the height of the 1913 Epson Derby, in front of thousands of spectators, a lone figure walked into the path of the galloping horses. What happened next was captured on film in horrific detail.
The woman in this footage was Emily Wilding Davison. She was a suffragette and she climbed underneath the running rail into the path of the king´s horse.
June, the 4th, 1913 , the biggest event of the lot was Derby day. Hundreds of thousands of people headed for Epson Dance. It was one of the few occasions where all social classes mixed together; dukes wrapped shoulders with dustmen. Royalty was separated from the common people by just the width of a race track. The King and Queen arrived to see their horse, Anma, in the big race. Emily knew that the eyes of the world and the lenses of the news real cameramen would be focused on Epson.
It transformed 40-year-old activist Emily Davison from a big part player in the votes for women campaign into perhaps the most famous suffragette of all.
Emily joined the suffragettes in 1906, just as the organization was becoming more radical.
In 1908 she was a marshall at a protest in High park that attracted as many as 700.000 people. In 1909 she was arrested for trying to storm the House of Commons. She was now part of a large network of freelance militants engaged in repeated acts of criminality.
Suffragette militant, she was now seen as a real threat to society.
The goverment imprisoned more than one thousand militant suffragettes. Emily Davison went to prison 9 times for her cause for offences that ranged from breaking windows to firebombing letter boxes. Now a new militancy that included fireracing and bombings were seen as the only answer. The radicals felt they had nothing to lose. Violent militancy escalated.
After nine prison sentences weakened by hunger striking and forty nine episodes of forced feeding, Emily was perhaps coming to believe that one final desperate act might produce a result. Now with the prison record she was broke and unemployable. A radicalized woman with nothing to lose, champion in a cause with everything to gain, was about to commit an act that would be seered into a social history. On Derby day, June the 4th, 1913 a horrifying act was captured on 3 news real cameras. After 100 years it might be possible to reveal what Emily´s intentions actually were. Using the 3 camera angles the team has pinpointed Emily´s position on the course. This introduces an intriguing possibility. Emily had only 4 seconds between ducking under the rail and being bowld over.
A forensic examination has highlighted something in her hands that provides an explanation.
She wasnt trying to bring down the king´s horse at all. She was hoping to attach something to it: a scarf.
Emily Davison's death provoked a complex reaction.
I have come to the women´s library to look at the hate mail Emily received while she laid dying.
"Miss Davison, I am glad to hear you are in hospital. I hope you suffer torture until you die."
"You idiot (underlined). I consider you are a person unworthy of existence in this world and should like the opportunity of starving, and beating you to appall .Why dont your people find an asylum for you?
Yours, an English man
Emily was taken to the Cotish hospital in Epson. She never came out of the coma into which she had fallen and she died four days later. The coronist verdict was accidental death
Her funeral contained all the pomp of a state ocassion. Thousands of suffraggettes acompanied the coffin. Tens of thousands of people lined the streets of London.
Emily had become what she perhaps desired and what the movement needed: the first martyr for the cause.
What do you think it happened?
Write an essay explaining the story of Emily W. Davison, following these prompts: (this shouldn't take you more than 2 sessions)
1.- Who was she?. Give a few details about her life.
2.- What happened on June, the 4th, 1913 at the Epson Derby?
3.- What was Emily trying to do when she was stamped by the horse?
3.- What did Emily become after this event?
4.- Do you think she killed herself or it was an accident?