Votes for women ; edited by June Purvis and Sandra Stanley Holton

Other Authors: Purvis, June, Holton, Sandra Stanley
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London New York: Routledge, c 2000
Series:Womenʹs and gender history
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Table of Contents:
  • 1.The making of suffrage hsitory, 2. The ideas of British suffragism, 3. Who was Lily Maxwell? Womenʹs suffrage and Manchester politics, 1866-1867, 4. Mrs Henry Fawcett (1847-1929): the widowaw a problem in feminist biography, 5.Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) and votes for women, 6."Deeds, not words": daily life in the Womenʹs social and political union in Edwardian Britain, 7.Militancy, masochism or martyrdom? The public and private prisons of Constance Lytton, 8."Dare to free!": the womenʹs freedom league and its legacy, 9.Women teachers and the suffrage campaign: arguments for professional equality, 10."I had not been to London": womenʹs suffrage -a view from the regions, 11. Jennie Baines: suffrage and an Austalian connection, 12."A symbol and a key": the suffrage movement in Britain, 1918-1928.