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Victorian and Edwardian Anti-Feminism


Volume Contents

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    Front Matter
  • Literature
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      ‘Silly Novels by Lady Novelists,’ Westminster Review (1856), pp. 442–61. By George Eliot
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      109
      ‘Plain Words on the Woman Question,’ Fortnightly Review (1889), pp. 448–58. By Grant Allen
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      110
      ‘The Strike of a Sex,’ The Quarterly Review 179 (October 1894), pp. 289–318. By William Barry
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      111
      ‘The Modern Malignant: II – The Malignant in Fiction,’ The Humanitarian (1896), pp. 52–8. By J. Peyton
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      112
      ‘The Anti-Marriage League,’ Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (January 1896), pp. 135–49. By Margaret O. W. Oliphant
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      113
      ‘The Psychology of Feminism,’ Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (January 1897), pp. 104–17. By Hugh E. M. Stutfield
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      114
      ‘The Sins of Ann Veronica,’ The Positivist Review (1 March 1910), pp. 64–6. By Philip Thomas
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      115
      ‘On Women Poets,’ The Nineteenth Century and After (October 1922), pp. 576–83.
  • Anti-Suffragists
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      116
      ‘Woman’s Mission,’ The Saturday Review (9 July 1859), pp. 44–5.
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      117
      ‘The Great Unrepresented,’ Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (September 1866), pp. 367–79. By Margaret O. W. Oliphant
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      118
      ‘Mill’s Logic; Or, Franchise for Females,’ Punch, or the London Charivari, cartoon (30 March 1867), p. 129.
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      119
      ‘Womanhood Suffrage,’ Punch, or the London Charivari (30 March 1867), p. 128.
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      120
      ‘Mill on the Subjection of Women,’ Edinburgh Review, 130 (October 1869), pp. 572–602. By Margaret O. W. Oliphant
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      121
      ‘Woman’s Suffrage,’ The Saturday Review (9 November 1872), pp. 594–5.
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      122
      ‘Women Voters,’ The Saturday Review (3 May 1873), pp. 569–70.
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      123
      ‘Women,’ The Saturday Review (11 April 1874), pp. 454–5.
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      124
      ‘Female Suffrage,’ Macmillan’s Magazine (June 1874), pp. 139–50. By Goldwin Smith
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      125
      ‘Women’s Suffrage,’ The Saturday Review (14 July 1883), pp. 37–8.
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      126
      ‘Women’s Suffrage,’ The National Review (January 1885), pp. 631–41. By Henry Cecil Raikes
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      127
      ‘Conservatism and Female Suffrage,’ The National Review (February 1888), pp. 735–52. By Goldwin Smith
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      128
      ‘The Women’s Protest against Women’s Suffrage,’ The Spectator (1 June 1889), pp. 750–1.
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      129
      ‘Of Women in Assemblies,’ The Nineteenth Century (October 1896), pp. 559–66. By Charles Selby Oakley
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      130
      ‘A Woman’s Criticism of the Women’s Congress,’ The Nineteenth Century (August 1899), pp. 192–202. By Frances H. Low
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      131
      ‘Women and Politics,’ The Nineteenth Century and After (February 1907), pp. 227–36. By Caroline E. Stephen
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      132
      ‘One Man One Suffragette. A Suggestion to the House of Commons’ Police,’ Punch, or the London Charivari, cartoon (13 March 1907), p. 193.
    • Women’s Suffrage: Some Sociological Reasons for Opposing the Movement (pamphlet, 1907), pp. 1–24. By Mrs. E. M. Simon
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        Women’s Suffrage
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      134
      ‘A Woman’s Plea against Woman Suffrage,’ The Nineteenth Century and After (March 1908), pp. 381–5. By Edith M. Massie
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      135
      ‘Women and the Franchise,’ The Edinburgh Review (July 1908), pp. 246–63.
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      136
      ‘The Women’s Anti-Suffrage Movement,’ The Nineteenth Century and After, 64 (August 1908), pp. 343–52. By Mrs. Humphry Ward
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      137
      ‘Votes for Women,’ The National Review, 52 (November 1908), pp. 387–98. By Mary Maxse
    • The Freedom of Women: An Argument against the Proposed Extension of the Suffrage to Women (pamphlet, 1908), pp. 3–55. By E. B. Harrison
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        Introduction
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        I
        Some Fallacies
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        II
        Some Characteristics of Women
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        III
        The Vote
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        IV
        The Vote—(Continued)
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        V
        Are Any Existing Laws Unfair to Women?
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        VI
        Are Any Existing Laws Unfair to Men?
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        VII
        The Family
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        VIII
        The Freedom of Women
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      139
      ‘Is Woman Suffrage Inevitable?’ Anti-Suffrage League pamphlet series, no. 5 (1908). By Mrs. Humphry Ward
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      140
      ‘A Letter to Mr. Heitland from one of the Female Anti- Suffragists,’ Anti-Suffrage League pamphlet series, no. 23 (1908).
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      141
      ‘Queen Victoria and Women’s Rights,’ Anti-Suffrage League pamphlet series, no. 4 (1908).
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      142
      ‘Nature’s Reason against Woman Suffrage,’ Anti-Suffrage League pamphlet series, no. 6 (1908). By Heber Hart
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      143
      ‘Women and the Suffrage,’ The Nineteenth Century and After (July 1908), pp. 64–73. By (Lady) A. M. Lovat
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      144
      ‘Suffrage and Anti-Suffrage – A Woman Worker’s Appeal,’ The National Review (January 1909), pp. 784–93. By M. E. Simkins
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      145
      ‘Woman Suffrage,’ The Quarterly Review (January 1909), pp. 276–304. By A. V. Dicey
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      146
      ‘It Would Endanger the Empire,’ Woman Suffrage: A National Danger (1912), pp. 31–9. Edited by Heber Hart
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      147
      ‘Anti Suffrage League – meeting report,’ The Girton Review (1909) Lent term, no. 25, pp. 7–8.
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      148
      ‘Women’s Suffrage and the National Welfare,’ Anti- Suffrage League pamphlet series, no. 8 (1909). By Anon
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      149
      ‘Bi-Sexual Suffrage,’ The Saturday Review (25 June 1910), p. 811.
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      150
      ‘Pageantry and Politics,’ The Nineteenth Century and After (August 1910), pp. 220–6. By E. B. Harrison
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      151
      ‘Letter from Miss Octavia Hill to the Editor of The Times: Women and the Suffrage,’ Anti-Suffrage League pamphlet series (14 July 1910).
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      152
      ‘The Anti-Suffrage Outdoor Campaign,’ The Anti-Suffrage Review (August 1910), p. 21.
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      153
      ‘Woman Suffrage: Its Dangers and Delusions,’ pamphlet (August 1910), pp. 1–16. By H. B. Samuels
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      154
      ‘An Economic Criticism of Woman Suffrage,’ The Westminster Review (January 1911), pp. 91–103. By C. H. Norman
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      155
      ‘Votes for Ladies,’ The Eye-Witness (22 June 1911), pp. 8–9.
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      156
      ‘The Women’s Bill,’ The Saturday Review (30 March 1912), pp. 385–6.
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      157
      ‘The Ladies’ Raid,’ The Eye-Witness (7 March 1912), pp. 358–9.
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      158
      Correspondence on publicity strategies, The Anti-Suffrage Review (April 1912), p. 76.
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      159
      ‘A Certain Woman,’ The Eye-Witness (16 May 1912), pp. 693–4. By J. K. P.
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      160
      ‘A Leap-Year Proposal,’ The Anti-Suffrage Review (May 1912), p. 109.
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      161
      ‘Desperate Cases and Despar(d)ate Remedies,’ The Anti-Suffrage Review (May 1912), p. 105.
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      162
      ‘Where Women Sit in Parliament,’ The Nineteenth Century and After (July 1912), pp. 167–81. By Edith Sellers
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      163
      ‘Unmasked,’ The Anti-Suffrage Review (September 1912), p. 215.
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      Selections from The Anti-Suffrage Handbook of Facts, Statistics and Quotations for the Use of Speakers, Campaigns Committee of the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage (1912), pp. 26–7, 41–6, 55–9, 76.
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        Woman Suffrage and Social Reform.
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        The Evil of Woman Suffrage.
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        The Physical Force Argument.
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      165
      ‘Why Women SHOULD NOT have the Vote: From Woman’s Point of View,’ The Pall Mall Magazine (March 1913), pp. 308–11.
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      166
      ‘The N.L.O.W.S. Stall at the Earl’s Court Exhibition,’ The Anti-Suffrage Review (December 1913), p. 252.
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      167
      ‘Anti-Suffrage Activity,’ The Anti-Suffrage Review (June 1914), p. 91.