What was the essential difference between suffragists and suffragettes?

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The issue of votes for women was a major political concern in the years leading up to the Great War. Women activists were divided over how to influence an apparently indifferent Parliament. Change, when it came, took many people by surprise.


What was the essential difference between suffragists and suffragettes?