Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and the Victorian feminist movement : the biography of an insurgent woman / Maureen Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Maureen S., author.

Series:

Gender in history.

Gender in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elmy, E. C. Wolstenholme (Elizabeth C. Wolstenholme).

Elmy, E. C. Wolstenholme.

Feminists--Great Britain--Biography.

Feminists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 280 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Online-ausg.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text provides the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918) - someone referred to among contemporaries as 'the grey matter in the brain' of the late-Victorian women's movement.

Contents:

9780719081095; 9780719081095; Copyright; Contents; List of plates; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; The song of the insurgent women; Figure 1 Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy at her writing tableSource: Reproduced with the permission of Congleton Museum; Introduction; 1 The making of a feminist: 1833-61; 2 Headmistress: The education campaign1862-67; 3 The 'parliamentary watchdog':1868-Spring 1874; 4 Calvary to resurrection: Summer 1874-82; 5 The 'great mole' of the women's movement:1883-90; 6 The Women's Emancipation Union,1891-July 1899: 'no mere suffrage society'

7 'The cold dark night is past': August 1899-May 19068 'At eventide there will be light': June 1906-March 1918; Conclusion Women . . . will never know how much they owe to her; New Year's Day 1900 War Against War in South Africa, 29 December 1899; Select bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781847797629

1847797628

9781781700037

1781700036

9781847794574

1847794572

OCLC:

818847427