Suffrage Days - Stories from the Women's Suffrage Movement

List of contents

Introduction 1 FROM ‘SURPLUS WOMAN’ TO INDEPENDENT PERSON Elizabeth Wolstenholme and the early women’s Movement 2 ‘THE REVOLT OF THE WOMEN’ Sexual subjection and sexual solidarity 3 A ‘STRANGE, ERRATIC GENIUS’ Jessie Craigen, working suffragist 4 ‘THE GRANDEST VICTORY’ Married women and the franchise 5 AMONG THE ‘INSURGENT WOMEN’ Hannah Mitchell, socialist and suffragist 6 ‘A MERRY, MILITANT SAINT’ Mary Gawthorpe and the argument of the stone 7 WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE AMONG THE BOHEMIANS Laurence Housman joins the movement 8 ‘ON THE HORNS OF A DILEMMA’ Alice Clark, liberal Quaker and democratic suffragist 9 MEN, WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE AND SEXUAL RADICALISM, 1912–14 10 WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR 11 LAST WORDS Women’s suffragists and women’s history after the vote

About the author

Sandra Stanley Holton is Australian Research Fellow at the University

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sandra Holton, Holton Sandra
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.1996
• EAN: 9780415109413
• ISBN: 978-0-415-10941-3
• No. of pages: 324
• Weight: 780 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; European History, HISTORY / General, British & Irish history, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards