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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holton, Sandra Stanley.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Suffrage--Great Britain--History.

Women.

Women--Suffrage.

Great Britain.

History.

Suffragists--Great Britain--Biography.

Suffragists.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1837-1901.

Politics and government.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1901-1936.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

Summary:

"Suffrage Days" is an account of the British suffrage movement from its inception until its victory in 1918. It is based around the experiences of seven individuals whose participation in the British suffrage movement is little-known: Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, Jessie Craigen, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Hannah Mitchell, Mary Gawthorpe, Laurence Housman, and Alice Clark. Through their stories and perceptions Sandra Stanley Holton addresses issues such as: a previously unacknowledged Radical-Liberal current in the nineteenth century movemen; the transatlantic links between Radical suffragists; the national and international significance of the Women's Franchise League; some nineteenth century origins of suffrage militancy; the relationship between emergent new masculine identities and suffrage politics; and the complex relationship between militant and constitutional suffragists. In a final chapter Holton examines the historiography of the suffrage movement.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0415109418

0415109426

OCLC:

33403544