Rise up, women! : the militant campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union, 1903-1914 / Andrew Rosen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosen, Andrew, author.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Women's history.

Routledge library editions. Women's history ; v. 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's Party (Great Britain).

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

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The suffragette movement shattered the domestic tranquillity of Edwardian England. This book is an original and searching study of the formidable organization which led this campaign: the Women's Social and Political Union.With the use of previously unpublished correspondence of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, her colleagues and such political leaders as Asquith, Balfour and Lloyd George, the author views the development of ever more extreme and violent forms of militancy not as a series of amusing exploits and incidents but as the carefully calculated political strategy the suffragettes int

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Antecedents; 2 Enter the Pankhursts; 3 The Founding of the WSPU; 4 Militancy Begins; 5 To London; 6 Rapid Growth; 7 The Split; 8 To Hyde Park!; 9 Frustration Mounts; 10 Violence Begins; 11 The Truce; 12 The Truce Renewed; 13 Violence, Flight, and Divided Counsels; 14 The Pethick-Lawrences Depart; 15 Bromley and Bow, and its Aftermath; 16 The Arson Campaign; 17 The Great Scourge; 18 The Arson Campaign, Continued; 19 The End of the Militant Campaign; 20 Epilogue: The Vote, and After; Notes; Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

"First published in 1974"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-24754-8

0-203-10400-5

1-283-97307-3

1-136-24755-6

9780203104002

OCLC:

827208909