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Cover of Before the Vote was Won

Before the Vote was Won Arguments For and Against Women's Suffrage 1864–1896

  • Published: 18 Oct 2010
  • DOI: 10.4324/9781315012964
  • Print ISBN: 9780415256902
  • eBook ISBN: 9781315012964

First published in 1987. This volume traces the arguments of early suffragists through the last three decades of the nineteenth century. Includes the texts of the House of Commons Debate on the 1871 Disabilities Bill, 1982 Women's Franchise Bill and key documents by those who were opposed to women's suffrage.

Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction By Jane Lewis
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    A woman's voice
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      The English Woman's Journal: Editorial: The Enfranchisement of Women 1 July 1864
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      The claim of Englishwomen to the suffrage constitutionally considered 1867 By Helen Taylor
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      Reasons for and against the enfranchisement of women 1869 By Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
  • The debate in the House of Commons on the Women's Disabilities Bill: 3 May 1871
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      The debate in the House of Commons on the Women's Disabilities Bill: 3 May 1871
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    Her sphere
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      Our policy: an address to women concerning the suffrage By Frances Power Cobbe
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      Electoral disabilities of women 11 March 1871 By Millicent Garrett Fawcett
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      The political disabilities of women 1 January 1872 By Lydia E. Becker
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      Women's need of representation 21 February 1872 By Anne Isabella Robertson
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      Electoral disabilities of women 3 April 1872 By Rhoda Garrett
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      Women's suffrage 6 December 1872 By E. M. Sturge
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      Why women desire the franchise 1874 By Frances Power Cobbe
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      The citizenship of women socially considered July 1874 By L.S.
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      Liberty, Equality, Fraternity 1874 By Lydia E. Becker
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      Speech at a meeting held in support of the bill to remove the electoral disabilities of women, at the Victoria Rooms, Clifton, Bristol 9 March 1876 By Helen Bright Clark
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      Speech on the women's disabilities removal bill 26 April 1876 By John Bright
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      A letter to the Rt Hon John Bright, MP May 1876 By A Lady in ‘The Gallery’
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      Speech at the women's suffrage meeting, St George's Hall 13 May 1876 By Frances Power Cobbe
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      The political claims of women By Julia Wedgwood
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      The present aspect of women's suffrage considered 14 May 1877 By Arabella Shore
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      Some of the facts of the women's suffrage question 1878 By Helen Blackburn
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      Comments on the opposition to women's suffrage 1878 By Helen Blackburn
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      Women's suffrage By Mrs Wynford Philipps
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      Parliamentary franchise for women ratepayers 1 June 1878 By Augusta Webster
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      Speech at a women's suffrage congress, Bristol 23 January 1879 By Helen Bright Clark
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      The rights and duties of women in local government 24 January 1879 By Lydia E. Becker
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      What women have a right to 2 March 1879 By Arabella Shore
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      Should the parliamentary franchise be granted to women householders? 11 December 1879 By Louisa Bigg
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      On woman suffrage 14 February 1880 By Jessie Craigen
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      Woman's claim February 1881 By Emily Pfeiffer
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      The census and women's suffrage By Laura E. Morgan-Brown
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      Women's suffrage and the franchise bill 14 January 1884 By Millicent Garrett Fawcett
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      Women and the new franchise bill: a letter to an Ulster Member of Parliament March 1884 By Isabella M. S. Tod
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      The parliamentary franchise for women: to the editor of The Times 24 May 1884 By Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy
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      An appeal against female suffrage June 1889 By Mrs. Humphry Ward
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      Home and politics By Millicent Garrett Fawcett
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      Women's suffrage 24 April 1891 By Samuel Smith
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      A reply to the letter of Mr Samuel Smith, MP, on women's suffrage 1892 By Millicent Garrett Fawcett
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      Female suffrage: a letter to Samuel Smith, MP 11 April 1892 By W. E. Gladstone
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      Female suffrage: the letter which ought to have been written by the Right Hon W. E. Gladstone, MP, to Samuel Smith, MP 24 April 1892
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      The case of the helots 1894 By Elizabeth Martyn
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      The duties of citizenship: the proper understanding and use of the municipal and other franchises for women 27 October 1896 By Gwenllian E. F. Morgan
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      The civil rights of women By Eva McLaren
  • Text of the Women's Franchise Bill: 1892
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      Text of the Women's Franchise Bill 1892
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    Back Matter