Which suffragette died

Jones suffered broken ribs, bruising and concussion. Emily was rushed into hospital but had received fatal internal injuries and died four days later.

It is still uncertain whether Emily truly intended to kill herself in the name of the suffragette cause that day. In her handbag was found a return train ticket and an invitation to a suffragette meeting that night, which do not suggest that the incident was planned.

Emily certainly believed that a sacrificial act would serve to raise the profile of the suffragette cause. However this was not so. The media concentrated on the wellbeing of the horse and jockey who seemed to never recover from the guilt he felt rather than the cause for which Emily died. The First World War then pulled society together and took the focus away from political activism of this sort. It was not until with the passing of the Equal Franchise Bill, that women over 21 were finally allowed the vote.

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Davison was born on 11 October in Blackheath. Hers was a comfortable, middle-class upbringing. So, when she was 19, the high-spirited, athletic and academically able Davison was forced to leave her studies at Royal Holloway college and take employment as a governess.

She went on to read for a London University degree, graduating with honours. With employment opportunities for university-educated women severely limited, Davison did what was expected of her and became a schoolteacher and, once again, a governess. Her illusive, whimsical green eyes and thin, half-smiling mouth, bore often the mocking expression of the Mona Lisa. Under the act, prisoners who damaged their health through their own conduct could be temporarily released to recover, and then re-imprisoned to complete their sentence.

She was in and out of prison, her health seriously suffering from repeated hunger strikes though she was never forcibly fed. There was a fear in the movement generally that the government was trying to kill Pankhurst.

This was part of the context in which Emily Wilding Davison visited the Derby on that fateful day of 4 June Financial insecurity was partly offset by the warmth and support of a web of close friendships that included suffragettes such as Mary Leigh, Rose Larmartine Yates and Eleanor Penn Gaskell. Davison was bookish, level-headed and likeable.

When she barricaded her cell door to prevent further feeding, the prison authorities placed a hose pipe through a cell window, drenching her with icy water.

When the door was finally broken down, she was fed again. This incident proved a turning point for Davison. In the horse-racing historian Michael Tanner argued that as Davison was standing in crowds on the inside of the bend at Tattenham Corner it would have been impossible for her to see the king's horse.

But new cross-referencing between the cameras has revealed, say the C4 programme makers, that Davison was closer to the start of Tattenham Corner than thought and so had a better line of sight.

In this position she could have seen and singled out Anmer. Historians have suggested that Davison and other suffragettes were seen "practising" at grabbing horses in the park near her mother's house and that they then drew lots to determine who should go to the Derby. After colliding with Anmer, Davison collapsed unconscious on the track. The horse went over, but then rose, completing the race without a jockey.

Davison died of her injuries four days later in Epsom Cottage Hospital. At the funeral of the leading suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst in , the jockey who had ridden Anmer that day, Herbert Jones, laid a wreath "to do honour to the memory of Mrs Pankhurst and Miss Emily Davison".