Suffrage and the Pankhursts
First published in 1987. This collection brings together important articles written by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters during the Suffragette Campaign, 1903-14. Includes a transcript…
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Introduction Re-Reading the Pankhursts and Women’s Suffrage
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Why we are Militant (A Speech Delivered in New York October 21st, 1913)
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Our Demand What it is and what it is not (N.W.S.P.U. Leaflet, c. 1908)
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Why we Oppose the Liberal Government (N. W. S. P. U. leaflet, c. 1908–9)
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A Message from the W.S.P.U. (Leaflet, c. 1911–12)
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Window Breaking: To One who has Suffered (W. S. P. U. Leaflet, c. 1912–13)
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The Outragettes (N.W.S.P.U. Leaflet, Reprinted from ‘the Weekly Dispatch,’ April 13th 1913)
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The Hunger and Thirst Strike and its Effects (WD, 11 April 1914)
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A Minimum Wage for Women (WD, 12 September 1914)
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The Sweating Scandal (WD, 24 October 1914)
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How to Meet Industrial Conscription (WD, 20 March 1915)
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Stand by the Woman Worker (WD, 27 March 1915)
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We Must Persevere (WD, 24 July 1915)
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Why Wait? (WD, 22 January 1916)
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A Question of Tactics (WD, 29 January 1916)
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The Opportunity (WD, 3 June 1916)
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Death-Rate of Mothers (WD, 6 November 1915)
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The Militant Methods of the N.W.S.P.U. (Being the verbatim Report of a Speech of Christabel Pankhurst, at the St James’s Hall, on October 15th, 1908)
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Votes for Women. The Conciliation Bill Explained (N.W.S.P.U. Leaflet, 1911)
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Suffragist Prisoners are Political Offenders. Therefore they should be Treated as First-Class Misdemeanants (N.W.S.P.U. Leaflet, c. 1911–12)
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How shall we get the Vote? (WD, 21 March 1914)
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What Happened on May 24th (WD, 6 June 1914)
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One Woman, One Vote (WD, 27 November 1915)
Rewriting the Victorians Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender
This collection of essays, both feminist and historical, analyzes power relations between men and women in the Victorian period. This volume is the first to…
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Engendering History for The Middle Class Sex and political economy in the Edinburgh Review
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The “Female Paternalist” as Historian Elizabeth Gaskell’s My Lady Ludlow
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From Trope to Code The Novel and The Rhetoric of Gender in Nineteenth-Century Critical Discourse
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Water Rights and the “Crossing O’ Breeds” Chiastic Exchange in The Mill on the Floss
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“To Tell the Truth of Sex” Confession and Abjection in Late Victorian Writing
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Reading the Gothic Revival “History” and Hints on Household Taste
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Excluding Women The Cult of the Male Genius in Victorian Painting
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Of Maenads, Mothers, and Feminized Males Victorian Readings of the French Revolution
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Demonic Mothers Ideologies of Bourgeois Motherhood in the Mid-Victorian Era
Women and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century England
The 'bonds of matrimony' describes with cruel precision the social and political status of married women in the nineteenth century. Women of all classes had…
English Studies
Between Fashion and Feminism: History in Mid-Victorian Women's Magazines
The article offers a first exploration of the contribution of women's magazines to mid-Victorian historical culture. Distinguished by a special heterogeneity in form and content,…
History of Education
‘Special strengths for their own special duties’: women, higher education and gender conservatism in late Victorian Britain
The article discusses contributions towards female higher education made by a group of women whose views on gender roles were conservative, rather than feminist or…
Women's Studies
Economics, Evolution, and Feminism in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Fiction
“[T]he greatest writer that the feminists ever produced on sociology and economics” (Sinclair 272), Charlotte Perkins Gilman pioneered the discussion of women's enforced economic parasitism…
Nineteenth-Century Contexts
“What are they to do with their lives?”: Anglican Sisterhoods and Useful Angels in Three Novels by Charlotte Mary Yonge
“Any truly [wholesome life such as will best maintain a woman's own health, that she may use it for the good of others] ought to…
Nineteenth-Century Contexts
Sarah Ellis's The Women of England: Domestic Happiness and Gender Performance
As both a reaction and a complement to Lockean liberalism and the mechanism of capitalist markets, separate spheres ideology fostered an expectation that domestic women…
Women: a cultural review
Feminism in Another Language: Learning from ‘Feminist’ Histories of Iran and/or from Histories of Iranian ‘Feminism’ since 1830
This article draws on the experience of investigating and interpreting histories of ‘women’, ‘feminists’ and ‘feminism’ in Iran during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In…
Women: a cultural review
The Bible and the Cause: Freethinking Feminists vs Christianity, England, 1870–1900
This article examines Victorian debates on scriptural interpretation and women's rights, when feminists and anti-feminists, Christians and secularists battled over whether the Bible assigned women…
Women: a cultural review
Victorian ‘Anti-racism’ and Feminism in Britain
Towards the end of the nineteenth century some individuals, such as the African-American Ida B. Wells, began to write about the close connections between racial…
Women: A Cultural Review
Tying White Ribbons Around the World: Manchester's Temperance Women and Late-Nineteenth Century Transnational Feminism
Miss Ada Finney ‘felt such a call to the mission field that she dared not disobey.’1 So on 5 July 5 1893 she stood before…
Women’s History Review
‘An Unexpected Recruit to Feminism’: Jessie Boucherett’s ‘Feminist Life’ and the importance of being wealthy
In 1859 Jessie Boucherett, the daughter of a Lincolnshire landowner possessed of an independent income, was inspired by press discussions of the need to find…
Women's History Review
The Abolitionist Struggle of Pastor Tommy Fallot: between social Christianity, feminism and secularism (1882–1893)
Tommy Fallot (1844–1904) is a little‐known figure in the history of French abolitionism; a recent discovery of private archives has made it possible to throw…
Women's History Review
Josephine Butler and the Making of Feminism: international abolitionism in the Netherlands (1870–1914)
The history of Dutch abolitionism within the wider international context highlights the complex relationship between abolitionism and feminism. Feminism and abolitionism were intricately related, both…
Women's History Review
Singular Leadership: Anna Howard Shaw, single women and the US woman suffrage movement
When the Rev. Dr Anna Howard Shaw became president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), her status as a single, self‐supporting woman forced…
Women's History Review
Forgotten Transnational Connections and National Contexts: an ‘entangled history’ of the political transfers that shaped Belgian feminism, 1890–1914
The history of Belgian feminism before World War I has hitherto been written almost exclusively from within a national framework. Using the perspective of ‘entangled…
Women's History Review
International Feminisms in Historical Comparative Perspective: France, Italy and Portugal, 1880s–1930s
This article approaches international feminisms in historical comparative perspective by looking at three feminist federations, called national councils of women, that were established in France,…
Women's History Review
Gendering the Historiography of the Suffragette Movement in Edwardian Britain: some reflections
The historiography of the British women's suffrage campaign is contested ground. This article, written by a feminist historian, contributes to the debate by offering some…
Women's History Review
Pomeroy v. Pomeroy: beauty, modernity, and the female entrepreneur in fin-de-siècle London
As a fictional personality trading as ‘Mrs Pomeroy’, Jeannette Scalé dominated London's elite beauty market through the late nineteenth century. By 1906, her control over…
Women's History Review
Christabel Pankhurst and the Smethwick Election: right-wing feminism, the Great War and the ideology of consumption
This article examines the roots of Christabel Pankhurst's Women's Party in the Women's Social and Political Union's adoption of right-wing feminism during the Great War.…
Women's History Review
Overcoming Inner Division: post-suffrage strategies in the organised German women's movement
German women were working within a context strikingly different from either the USA or the UK following the granting of suffrage in 1918. Focusing on…
Politics and Society The Journals of Lady Knightley of Fawsley 1885–1913
Louisa Mary, Lady Knightley of Fawnsley, was a woman of unusually wide interests, especially in the field of public affairs. In an age when few…
The Radical Women’s Press of the 1850s
First published in 1991. The volume reprints excerpts from six radical feminist journals of this crucial decade: The Lily, the Genius of Liberty, the Pioneer…
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Restrictions on Women’s Movement Physically, Intellectually, Psychologically
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Women and Power Myth, Reality and Potential
Volume 5. The Queen’s Daughters in India
After the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts in England on 15 April 1886, attention turned almost immediately to the British Colonies, where Regulation was…
