Votes for women /
Purvis, June.
Holton, Sandra Stanley.
London ; New York : Routledge,
2000.
A collection of 12 research papers by British and Australian women scholars.
The making of suffrage history / Sandra Stanley Holton -- The ladies of British sufragism / Christine Bolt -- Who is Lily Maxwell? Women's suffrage and Manchester politics, 1866-1867 / Jane Rendall -- Mrs Henry Fawcett (1847-1929): the widow as a problem in feminist biography / Janet Howarth -- Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) and votes for women / June Purvis -- 'Deeds, not words': daily life in the women's social and political union in Edwardian Britain / June Purvis -- Militancy, masochism or martyrdom? The public and private prisons of Constance Lytton / Marie Mulvey-Roberts --"Dare to be free!': the Women's Freedom League and its legacy / Hilary Frances -- Women teachers and the suffrage campaign: arguments for professional equality / Alison Oram -- 'I had not been to London': women's suffrage, a view from the regions / June Hammam -- Jennie Baines: suffrage and an Australian connection / Judith Smart -- 'A symbol and a key': the suffrage movement in Britain, 1918-1928 / Johanna Alberti.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Women
Suffragists
Women's rights