1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910817879803321

Autore

Holton Sandra Stanley

Titolo

Suffrage days : stories from the women's suffrage movement / / Sandra Stanley Holton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996

ISBN

1-134-83786-0

0-203-42756-4

1-280-32041-9

0-203-29746-6

1-134-83787-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Disciplina

324.6/23/0941

Soggetti

Women - Suffrage - Great Britain - History

Suffragists - Great Britain

Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901

Great Britain Politics and government 1901-1936

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-290) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Plates; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; FROM 'SURPLUS WOMAN' TO INDEPENDENT PERSON Elizabeth Wolstenholme and the early women's movement; 'THE REVOLT OF THE WOMEN' Sexual subjection and sexual solidarity; A 'STRANGE, ERRATIC GENIUS' Jessie Craigen, working suffragist; 'THE GRANDEST VICTORY' Married women and the franchise; AMONG THE 'INSURGENT WOMEN' Hannah Mitchell, socialist and suffragist; 'A MERRY, MILITANT SAINT' Mary Gawthorpe and the argument of the stone; WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE AMONG THE BOHEMIANS Laurence Housman joins the movement

'ON THE HORNS OF A DILEMMA' Alice Clark, liberal Quaker and democratic suffragistMEN, WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE AND SEXUAL RADICALISM, 1912  14; WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR; LAST WORDS Women's suffragists and women's history after the vote; Notes; Notes on further reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.