Photo

Movies In ‘Suffragette,’ Feminist Insight That’s About More Than the Vote The film takes place in Britain in 1912 and pointedly tells an unfinished story, one that ends on a bittersweet, equivocal note. Read more

Woman suffrage was defeated yesterday in New Jersey by a majority of about fifty thousand. Despite President Wilson’s recent declaration in favor of the women and his trip to his old home, Princeton, to cast his vote for their cause, every county in the State cast a majority against the suffrage amendment. The defeat was overwhelming. The women conceded it early in the evening, but they stuck boldly to their battle flag and said they would carry the fight into another campaign, in which they felt confident they would drive their foes to cover. — The New York Herald, European Edition, November 4, 1915