Votes for women
By: edited by June Purvis and Sandra Stanley Holton
Contributors: Purvis, June; Holton, Sandra Stanley
Series: Women's and gender history
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage -- Great Britain -- History; Suffragists -- Great Britain -- History; Women's rights -- Great Britain -- History
Notes: A collection of 12 research papers by British and Australian women scholars

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