Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women's Suffrage MovementThis is a history of the suffrage movement in Britain from the beginnings of the first sustained campaign in the 1860s to the winning of the vote for women in 1918. The book focuses on a number of figures whose role in this agitation has been ignored or neglected. These include the free-thinker Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy; the founder of the women's movement in the United States, Elizabeth Cady Stanton; the working class orator, Jessie Craigen; and the socialist suffragists, Hannah Mitchell and Mary Gawthorpe. Through the lives of these figures Holton uncovers the complex origins of the movement and associated issues of gender. |
Contents
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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 |
Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women's Suffrage Movement Sandra Stanley Holton Limited preview - 1996 |
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