The women's suffrage movement in Britain, 1866-1928 / Sophia A. van Wingerden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Wingerden, Sophia A., 1967-

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Women.

Women--Suffrage.

Suffragists.

History.

Great Britain.

Suffragists--Great Britain--History.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 227 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Summary:

This book tells the story of the women's suffrage movement in Britain beginning with John Stuart Mill's proposal of a women's suffrage amendment to a reform bill. It ends with the victory of 1928, concluding more than 50 years of repeated defeats, anti-suffragism, militancy, imprisonment, hunger strikes and forcible feeding, and multiple internal splits and their only partial victory of 1918.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-223) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0312218532

OCLC:

40269538