The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain, 1866-1928

By: S. van Wingerden

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Hardcover | 19 May 1999 | Edition Number 1

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This book looks at the major events, themes and problems of the suffrage movement from its beginnings to its conclusion. In 1928, the first year when women in Britain could vote on the same terms as men, longtime suffrage leader Millicent Garrett Fawcett was in her eighties; when the British women's suffrage movement began, she had been too young to sign the Ladies' Petition, a plea to Parliament to enfranchise women. For the next six decades, she and thousands of others experienced repeated defeats of women's suffrage bills and amendments, anti-suffragism from men and women alike, the militant movement with its violence, imprisonments, hunger strikes and forcible-feeding, and multiple internal divisions occasioned by conflicts over party loyalties, strategies and World War I, only to end up with the partial victory of 1918. Women such as Millicent Garrett Fawcett devoted their lives to the cause, not merely because the vote was their right, but because they wanted to change the world and saw in the vote the power to do so.

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Introduction
The Ladies' Petition
The Legal Position of Women
John Stuart Mill's Amendment to the Representation of the People Act, 1867
Votes by Accident
Early Years--1870 to 1884
Parliamentary Progress
Discord and Division: Contagious Diseases and Voting Wives
Progress for Women in the 1870s
Women's Suffrage--Pro and Con
The Free Trade Hall Demonstration in Manchester
Extra Cargo--The Reform Bill of 1884
The "Doldrums"--Women's Suffrage 1885-1904
The 1890s
"Deeds, Not Words!"--The Women's Social and Political Union
The Suffragettes and the Courts
An Increase in Militancy
Political Prisoner Status and Forcible Feeding
The More They are Imprisoned and Punished the More They Go On
Suffrage Ladies' and the "Shrieking Sisterhood" The Rift Within the Lute
If We Were Enfranchised, We Should Do Much Better
Pretty Woman
Quakers, Actresses, Gymnasts and other Suffragists
The Anti-Suffragists--"A Man, it is Commonly Felt, Ought to be a Man and a Woman a Woman"
Conciliation
Black Friday
Conciliation Bill in 1911
The Coronation Procession Conciliation Bill in 1912
The Reform Bill in 1913
Descent into Chaos
Splits--The Pethick-Lawrences Leave
1913--War in Declared
The NUWSS and Labour
The East London Federation of Suffragettes
The Year 1914
Patriots and Feminists
The Impact of War on Feminist Ideology
The WSPU and the War
ELFS and the War
Suffrage in Wartime
The Speaker's Conference--Suffrage Again
NUWSS into NUSEC
After the War was Won
The Cause
Index
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