| Description |
16 unnumbered pages, 631 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Virago reprint library ; no. 3 |
| Contents |
Richard Marsden Pankhurst -- The rise of the women's suffrage movement -- Emmeline Goulden -- The Manchester by-election of 1883 -- Green Hayes -- After the third reform act. Pankhurst v. Hamilton -- Emerson and company -- The women's franchise league -- The little girls in Russell Square -- Manchester and the early I.L.P.-the unemployed agitation-Mrs. Pankhurst a poor law guardian -- Gorton election-boggart hole clough -- "The enemy of the people" -- Bereavement -- Widowhood -- Women's labour representation-the women's social and political union formed -- Student days-the W.S.P.U. appears in the lobby -- Militant tactics begin -- The young labour party -- The Pethink Lawrences-the struggle in the ladies' gallery-deputation to the Campbell-Bannerman -- Clements inn -- Holloway prison -- The break with the labour party -- The London Cossack, "qui veut la fin veut les moyens" -- The women's freedom league and the W.S.P.U. triumvirate -- Asquith becomes prime minister-"premier's great reform bill!-votes for women" -- "Help the suffragettes to rush the house of commons!" -- The hunger strike-the first stone throwers -- Forcible feeding -- Harry -- "Jane Warton" -- The truce and the conciliation bill -- Black Friday-death of Mary Clarke-America -- The truce renewed -- End of the truce-rebellion spreading "like foot and mouth disease" -- Arrest of the Pethick-flight of Christabel Pankhurst-defeat of the conciliation bill -- Mrs. Pankhurst and the Pethick Lawrences at the old bailey -- Arson and the popular agitation -- The severance from teh Pethink lawrences -- The east end campaign-reform bill withdrawn -- Revolt against forcible feeding-"cat and mouse" act -- Three years' penal servitude for Mrs. Pankhurst -- Emily Wilding Davison at the Derby -- eat London federation formed-"cat and mouse" act in practice -- "Mice" abroad-Ellis Island-Norway and Denmark -- Ulster unionism promises votes for women-the Dublin Lock-out-the "people's army and "women's body-guard" -- East London federation severed from W.S. P.U.-fight in popular council chamber -- From Bow to Budapest -- Greater destruction-suffragette militancy turns upon ulster -- Deputation to the King-prison officials charged with drugging suffragettes -- East end deputation- Asquith's first step towards surrender -- The desperate plight of the "mice"-Lloyd George offers to resign -- The European war and the amnesty -- Final-votes for women-the victory |
| Notes |
Reprint of the 1931 ed. published by Longmans, Green & Co., London and New York |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Women -- Suffrage -- Great Britain -- History.
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| LC no. |
78310676 |
| ISBN |
0860680258 |
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0860680266 (paperback) |
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