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Rise Up, Women! The Militant Campaign of the Women’s Social and Political Union 1903-1914

  • Published: 17 Jan 2013
  • DOI: 10.4324/9780203104002
  • Print ISBN: 9780415623841
  • eBook ISBN: 9780203104002

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With the use of previously unpublished correspondence of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, her colleagues and such political leaders as Asquith, Balfour and Lloyd George, the author views the development of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 intended it to be. He examines the reasons for the remarkable effectiveness of militant tactics in making women’s enfranchisement a political issue of central importance, and shows why militancy failed to secure this right prior to the outbreak of war in August 1914. He assesses, too, the influence of the vast social and political changes wrought by the war on the ultimate success of the campaign in 1918.

Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction
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    Antecedents
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    Enter the Pankhursts
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    3
    The Founding of the WSPU
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    4
    Militancy Begins
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    5
    To London
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    Rapid Growth
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    The Split
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    To Hyde Park!
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    9
    Frustration Mounts
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    10
    Violence Begins
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    The Truce
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    The Truce Renewed
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    13
    Violence, Flight, and Divided Counsels
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    14
    The Pethick-Lawrences Depart
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    Bromley and Bow, and its Aftermath
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    16
    The Arson Campaign
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    17
    The Great Scourge
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    18
    The Arson Campaign, Continued
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    The End of the Militant Campaign
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    Epilogue: The Vote, and After
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    Back Matter