Suffrage days : stories from the women's suffrage movement /
This is an account of the British Suffrage movement from its inception until its victory in 1918. It is based around the experiences of seven women whose participation in the British Suffrage movement is little-known.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1996.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 0203297466 9780203297469 0203427564 9780203427569 0203735803 9780203735800 9786610320417 6610320411 9781134837878 1134837879 9781134837823 1134837828 9781134837861 1134837860 1280320419 9781280320415 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- From 'surplus woman' to independent person : Elizabeth Wolstenholme and the early women's movement
- 'The revolt of the women' : sexual subjection and sexual solidarity
- A 'strange, erratic genius' : Jessie Craigen, working suffragist
- 'The grandest victory' : married women and the franchise
- Among the 'insurgent women' : Hannah Mitchell, socialist and suffragist
- 'A merry, militant saint' : Mary Gawthorpe and the argument of the stone
- Women's suffrage among the bohemians : Laurence Housman joins the movement
- 'On the horns of a dilemma' : Alice Clark, liberal Quaker and democratic suffragist
- Men, women's suffrage and sexual radicalism, 1912-14
- Women's suffrage and the First World War
- Last words : women's suffragists and women's history after the vote.