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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790909103321

Autore

Smith Harold L.

Titolo

The British women's suffrage campaign, 1866-1928 / / Harold L. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-317-86224-4

1-138-35724-3

1-315-83356-5

1-317-86225-2

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 p.)

Collana

Seminar Studies

Disciplina

324.6/230941

324.6230941

Soggetti

Women - Suffrage - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Women - Suffrage - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Feminism - Great Britain - History

Women - Political activity - Great Britain - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This edition first published in 2010 by Pearson Longman.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1. Background -- Part 2. Analysis -- Part 3. Assessment -- Part 4. Documents.

Sommario/riassunto

This Seminar Study was the first book to trace the British women's suffrage campaign from its origins in the 1860s through to the achievement of equal suffrage in 1928.  In this second edition, Smith provides new evidence drawn from the author's research on how the main post-1918 women's organisation (the NUSEC) worked with Conservative Party women to persuade the Conservative Party to endorse equal franchise rights.  Smith focuses on the actions of reformers and their opponents, with due attention paid to the campaigns in Scotland and Wales as well as the movements in England. He ex