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Cover of Women's Suffrage Literature

Women's Suffrage Literature

Edited by Katharine Cockin; Glenda Norquay; Sowon S. Park

  • Published: 11 Nov 2004
  • DOI: 10.4324/9780415357449
  • Set ISBN: 9780415357449

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The Fiction of Gertrude Colmore


Widely advertised to activists in the women’s suffrage press, Suffragette Sally was one of Gertrude Colmore’s most successful novels. The educational and aesthetic qualities of this ‘novel with a purpose’ were praised in the review published in the Women’s Freedom League newspaper, The Vote, where Louisa Thompson Price concluded that, ‘We feel that a debt of gratitude is due to the author for the valuable literary contribution that she has made to the cause of woman’s suffrage’. Published by Stanley Paul in 1911, the novel made an important cultural intervention in the debates on political strategy following the frustrations of the government’s treatment of the Conciliation Bill.

Volume Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction to Volume II By Katharine Cockin
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    Shame! By G. Colmore
  • Part 1: Suffragette Sally
    • Gertrude Colmore pseud, [i.e. Gertrude Renton, afterwards Dunn, afterwards Weaver], Suffragette Sally, London: Stanley Paul & Co., 1911 By G. Colmore
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        The Crimson Gate By G. Colmore
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        Priests Of Progress By G. Colmore
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        Suffragette Sally By G. Colmore
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          Chapter I: A Dark Evening
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          Chapter II: A Song of Freedom
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          Chapter III: Fantasy and Fact
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          Chapter IV: The Bilkes Family
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          Chapter V: Geraldine
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          Chapter VI: Sally Has a Thorough Change
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          Chapter VII: Uncle Beauchamp’s Biscuits
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          Chapter VIII: Red in the Mist
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          Chapter IX: An Indefinite Call
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          Chapter X: A Bundle of Papers
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          Chapter XI: Points of View
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          Chapter XII: Husband and Wife
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          Chapter XIII: The Sign of the Cross
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          Chapter XIV: Dr. Dean
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          Chapter XV: Arrested
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          Chapter XVI: Silence
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          Chapter XVII: “Ships That Pass in the Night”
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          Chapter XVIII: In the Pillory
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          Chapter XIX: Sausages
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          Chapter XX: Husband and Wife
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          Chapter XXI: An Advocate
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          Chapter XXII: Plotting
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          Chapter XXIII: The Plot That Failed
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          Chapter XXIV: O Excellent and Beneficent Sausage!
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          Chapter XXV: A Firm Hand
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          Chapter XXVI: Rachel Cullen
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          Chapter XXVII: A Show
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          Chapter XXVIII: A Leader
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          Chapter XXIX: A Hunger Strike
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          Chapter XXX: Inventions
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          Chapter XXXI: Mrs. Brown
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          Chapter XXXII: Contrasts
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          Chapter XXXIII: Was It Worth While?
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          Chapter XXXIV: The Passing Of Mrs. Brown
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          Chapter XXXV: A Decision
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          Chapter XXXVI: A Protest
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          Chapter XXXVII: Consequences
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          Chapter XXXVIII: On Remand
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          Chapter XXXIX: The Long Night
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          Chapter XL: A Public Servant
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          Chapter XLI: Edith and Dr. Dean
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          Chapter XLII: What is in a Name
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          Chapter XLIII: The Valley of Vision
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          Chapter XLIV: Bumbledom
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          Chapter XLV: A Truce
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          Chapter XLVI: One Hundred and Nine
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          Chapter XLVII: Delays Are Dangerous
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          Chapter XLVIII: Black Friday
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          Chapter XLIX: “Cheap Martyrdom”
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          Chapter L: Robbie Colquhoun
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          Chapter LI: An Interlude
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          Chapter LII: A Thorough Change
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          Chapter LIII
  • Part 2: Short stories
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      ‘The Nun’, The Vote, 26 June 1912, p. 175 By G. Colmore
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      ‘Mr Jones and the Governess’, Votes for Women, 16 August 1912, p. 743 By G. Colmore
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      ‘The Introduction’, The Suffragette, 22 November 1912, p. 88 By G. Colmore
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      ‘A Fool From Afar’, The Suffragette, 27 December 1912, p. 161 By G. Colmore
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      ‘Pluck’, The Suffragette, 24 January 1913, p. 217 By G. Colmore
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      ‘The Shutter’, The Suffragette, 21 March 1913, p. 365 By G. Colmore
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      ‘George Lloyd’, Votes for Women, 16 May 1913, p. 589 By G. Colmore
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      ‘Oh, Richard!’, Votes for Women, 4 July  1913, p. 226 By G. Colmore
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      ‘The Maenad and the Minister’, The Vote, 1 August 1913, p. 226 By G. Colmore
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      ‘Betsy’, Votes for Women, 10 October 1913, p. 16 By G. Colmore
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      ‘Just This Once’, Votes for Women, 17 October 1913, p. 29 By G. Colmore
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      The Enormities of Eleanor’, Votes for Women, 14 November 1913,  p. 143 By G. Colmore
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      ‘The White Cross’, Votes for Women, 5 December 1913, p. 143 By G. Colmore
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      ‘Fellowship’,  Votes for  Women, 26  February 1915, p. 181 By G. Colmore