Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Introduction: the campaigns for votes for women -- 1 The making of suffrage history -- 2 The ideas of British suffragism -- 3 Who was Lily Maxwell? Women's suffrage and Manchester politics, 1866-1867 -- 4 Mrs Henry Fawcett (1847-1929): the widow as a problem in feminist biography -- 5 Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) and votes for women -- 6 'Deeds, not words': daily life in the Women's Social and Political Union in Edwardian Britain -- 7 Militancy, masochism or martyrdom? The public and private prisons of Constance Lytton -- 8 'Dare to be free!': the Women's Freedom League and its legacy -- 9 Women teachers and the suffrage campaign: arguments for professional equality -- 10 'I had not been to London': women's suffrage - a view from the regions -- 11 Jennie Baines: suffrage and an Australian connection -- 12 'A symbol and a key': the suffrage movement in Britain, 1918-1928 -- Index.

Votes for Women provides an innovative re-examination of the suffrage movement, presenting new perspectives which challenge the existing literature on this subject. This fascinating book charts the history of the movement in Britain from the nineteenth century to the postwar period, assessing important figures such as; * Emmeline Pankhurst and the militant wing * Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of the constitutional wing *Jennie Baines and her link with the international suffrage movements.

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