Title From Liberal to Labour with women's suffrage : the story of Catherine Marshall / Jo Vellacott

Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1993

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 518 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations Contents Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Illustrations -- 1 Late Victorian Liberal Youth, 1880â€?1907 -- 2 Bringing the Women's Suffrage Cause to the Lake District, 1907â€?9 -- 3 Broadening Support for Women's Suffrage in the North-West, January to November 1909 -- 4 General Election, NUWSS Restructuring, November 1909 to May 1910 -- 5 Conciliation Attempted, and Another General Election, June to December 1910 -- 6 Organizing Press Work and Experiencing International Suffrage Sisterhood, January to August 1911 7 The Conciliation Cliffhanger, September 1911 to March 19128 New Strategy: The NUWSS Looks Left, March to June 1912 -- 9 Election Fighting Fund and Reform Bill, June 1912 to January 1913 -- 10 Reform Bill DébÃØcle: Catherine Takes Over Political Work, January to May 1913 -- 11 Taking the Cause to the Country by EFF and Pilgrimage, June to August 1913 -- 12 Life in London and an Interlude in Keswick, Summer 1913 -- 13 An All-Party Campaign: Wooing Liberals, Unionists, and Labour, September to December 1913 14 Pre-election Strains on the NU's Nonparty Stance, January to March 191415 All Parties Consider Boarding the Bandwagon, and the Election That Never Came, April to August 1914 -- 16 Conclusions -- Appendices -- A: Biographical Notes -- B: Questions for Organizers -- C: Questions for Divisional Secretaries -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W Summary Catherine Marshall was a vital figure in the women's suffrage movement in Britain before the First World War. By 1913 she was uniquely placed as a lobbyist, with inside information and sympathetic listeners in every party. Through her the dynamically reorganized National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) brought the women's suffrage issue to the fore of public awareness. It pushed the Labour Party to adopt a strong stand on women's suffrage and raised working-class consciousness, reawakening a long-dormant demand for full adult enfranchisement. Had the general election due in 1915 taken place, financial and organizational support for the Labour Party from NUWSS might well have been substantial enough to influence the final results. These impressive achievements were forgotten by the time Catherine Marshall died in 1962. Even recent research on the period has failed to show the full significance of the issue of women's suffrage, much less Marshall's part in the movement. Jo Vellacott's revealing account of Marshall's political work also includes vivid descriptions of her liberal Victorian childhood and strangely purposeless young adulthood, and the heady experiences of women who, through the awakening of political consciousness, forged a lifestyle to fit their new aspirations Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-503) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Marshall, Catherine, 1880-1961 SUBJECT Marshall, Catherine, 1880-1961 fast Marshall, Catherine, (1946- ...) ram Marshall, Catherine. swd Subject Liberal Party (Great Britain) -- History Labour Party (Great Britain) -- History SUBJECT Labour Party (Great Britain) fast Liberal Party (Great Britain) fast Subject Women -- Suffrage -- Great Britain -- History Suffragists -- Great Britain -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. Politics and government Suffragists Women -- Suffrage Biografie Frauenwahlrecht Femmes -- Droit de vote -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire. Suffragettes -- Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies. Geschichte (1907-1914) SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1901-1936. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056917 Subject Great Britain Großbritannien Genre/Form Electronic books Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 92090719 ISBN 9780773563681 0773563687

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