When were the suffragettes campaigning women to vote?

The struggle for women's suffrage in Britain may be said to have begun in 1851 when the Sheffield Female Political Association formally submitted a petition to the House of Lords to allow women the right to vote. It wasn't until 1928, however, that women in that country were given the same right to vote as men (over the age of 21) with the passing of the Representation of the People Act of 1928. Therefore, it may be said that the British suffragette campaign for the right to vote lasted approximately 77 years.[1]

[1] Details gleaned primarily from the Wikipedia entry for "Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom," <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_Kingdom> (accessed December 9, 2008).

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