Oh, the suffragettes caused plenty of trouble in public: marches, soapbox speeches, handcuffing themselves different places, hunger strikes, causing riots and (more often) having riots caused on them. All sorts of stuff that got them ridiculed, and thrown in jail, and ridiculed for being thrown in jail. See meme.
Their counterparts in Britain were even more unruly: Some going so far as to turn violent and even plant bombs.
Then as now there were — ahem — sharp disagreements within the movement on which tactics were most effective for advancing social justice.
Same shit when you get to the 1960s and the black civil rights movement.
And then as now there were those who stood in their way and pulled every trick in the book from mocking cartoons (essentially no different from the memes of today) to literally whacking them on the heads with nightsticks and jailing then — which, hey, we are also seeing today against BLM most notably in Portland!
It took 70+ years from the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 until the 19th Amendment was passed.
We take women’s right to vote for granted nowadays but that was a long ass time to wait.