Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women's Suffrage MovementSuffrage Daysis an account of the British suffrage movement from its inception until its victory in 1918. It is based around the experiences of seven individuals whose participation in the British suffrage movement is little-known: Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, Jessie Craigen, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Hannah Mitchell, Mary Gawthorpe, Laurence Housman, and Alice Clark. Through their stories and perceptions Sandra Stanley Holton addresses issues such as: a previously unacknowledged Radical-Liberal current in the nineteenth century movemen; the transatlantic links between Radical suffragists; the national and international significance of the Women's Franchise League; some nineteenth century origins of suffrage militancy; the relationship between emergent new masculine identities and suffrage politics; and the complex relationship between militant and constitutional suffragists. In a final chapter Holton examines the historiography of the suffrage movement. |
Contents
FROM SURPLUS WOMAN TO INDEPENDENT PERSON Elizabeth Wolstenholme and the early womens movement | 7 |
THE REVOLT OF THE WOMEN Sexual subjection and sexual solidarity | 27 |
A STRANGE ERRATIC GENIUS Jessie Craigen working suffragist | 49 |
THE GRANDEST VICTORY Married women and the franchise | 71 |
AMONG THE INSURGENT WOMEN Hannah Mitchell socialist and suffragist | 93 |
A MERRY MILITANT SAINT Mary Gawthorpe and the argument of the stone | 115 |
WOMENS SUFFRAGE AMONG THE BOHEMIANS Laurence Housman joins the movement | 139 |
ON THE HORNS OF A DILEMMA Alice Clark liberal Quaker and democratic suffragist | 161 |
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Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women's Suffrage Movement Sandra Stanley Holton Limited preview - 1996 |
Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women's Suffrage Movement Sandra Stanley Holton Limited preview - 2002 |
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