The Suffragette Movement

Pankhurst, Sylvia

Date Written: 1984-01-01
Publisher: Virago Press
Year First Published: {58555 The Suffragette Movement SUFFRAGETTE MOVEMENT Pankhurst, Sylvia Virago Press The Suffragette Movement is unique, for it is the only major history of the fight for the vote to be written by one of the movement's central participants. It chronicles the progress of the struggle which began in the late nineteenth century and continued until after the First World War. 1984-01-01 1931 1978 631pp B Book 0-86068-026-6 324.3.0941 The Suffragette Movement is unique, for it is the only major history of the fight for the vote to be written by one of the movement's central participants. It chronicles the progress of the struggle which began in the late nineteenth century and continued until after the First World War, a triumph of courage and determination. It also covers many aspects of the wider campaign for women's rights at the beginning of the twentieth century, and includes Sylvia Pankhurst's classic account of her attempt to organize working women in the East End of London. As well as being an important primary source for the study of the period, The Suffragette Movement is a fascinating memoir of the Pankhursts, one of the most extraordinaty British political families of the last hundred years. 'What Sylvia communicates is...feeling out of what it was like to live through that struggle...a full and very readable memoir' - Margaret Walters, New Society - Contents: Part 1 Book 1 Richard Marsden Pankhurst The rise of the women's suffrage movement Book 2 Emmiline Goulden The Manchester by-election of 1883 Green hayes After the third reform act. Pankhurst vs. Hamilton Emerson and Company The women's franchise league The Little girls in Russell Square Book 3 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 Book 4 Widowhood Women's labour representation--The women's social and political union formed Book 5 Student Days--The WSPU appears in the lobby Militant Tactics begin The young labour party The Pethick Lawrences--The struggle in the Ladies gallery--Deputation to Campbell-Bannerman Clements Inn Holloway prison The break with the labour party The London Cossack. "Qui Veut ka Fin veut les Moyens Part 2 Book 6 The women's freedom league and the WSPU 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" Book 7 Arrest of the Pethick Lawrences--Flight of Christabel Pankhurst--Defeat of the Conciliation Bill Mrs. Pankhurst and the Pethick Lawrences at the old Bailey Arson and the popular agitation Book 8 The severance from the Pethick Lawrences The East End Campaign--Reform bill withdrawn Revolt againest forcible feeding--"Cat and Mouse' act Three years' Penal servitude for Mrs. Pankhurst Emily Wilding Davison at the derby Book 9 East 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 bodyguard" East London Federation severed from WSPU---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 Deputaiton---Asquith's first step towards surrender The Desperate flight of the "mice"---Lloyd George offers to resign The European war and the Amnesty Final---Votes for Women---The Victory Index CX25035 1 false true false CX25035.htm [0xc000b84210 0xc0028dff50] Cx}
Year Published: 1978
Pages: 631pp ISBN: 0-86068-026-6
Dewey: 324.3.0941
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX25035

The Suffragette Movement is unique, for it is the only major history of the fight for the vote to be written by one of the movement's central participants. It chronicles the progress of the struggle which began in the late nineteenth century and continued until after the First World War.

Abstract:
The Suffragette Movement is unique, for it is the only major history of the fight for the vote to be written by one of the movement's central participants. It chronicles the progress of the struggle which began in the late nineteenth century and continued until after the First World War, a triumph of courage and determination. It also covers many aspects of the wider campaign for women's rights at the beginning of the twentieth century, and includes Sylvia Pankhurst's classic account of her attempt to organize working women in the East End of London.
As well as being an important primary source for the study of the period, The Suffragette Movement is a fascinating memoir of the Pankhursts, one of the most extraordinaty British political families of the last hundred years.

'What Sylvia communicates is...feeling out of what it was like to live through that struggle...a full and very readable memoir' - Margaret Walters, New Society

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Contents:

Part 1
Book 1
Richard Marsden Pankhurst
The rise of the women's suffrage movement
Book 2
Emmiline Goulden
The Manchester by-election of 1883
Green hayes
After the third reform act. Pankhurst vs. Hamilton
Emerson and Company
The women's franchise league
The Little girls in Russell Square
Book 3
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
Book 4
Widowhood
Women's labour representation--The women's social and political union formed
Book 5
Student Days--The WSPU appears in the lobby
Militant Tactics begin
The young labour party
The Pethick Lawrences--The struggle in the Ladies gallery--Deputation to Campbell-Bannerman
Clements Inn
Holloway prison
The break with the labour party
The London Cossack. "Qui Veut ka Fin veut les Moyens
Part 2
Book 6
The women's freedom league and the WSPU 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"
Book 7
Arrest of the Pethick Lawrences--Flight of Christabel Pankhurst--Defeat of the Conciliation Bill
Mrs. Pankhurst and the Pethick Lawrences at the old Bailey
Arson and the popular agitation
Book 8
The severance from the Pethick Lawrences
The East End Campaign--Reform bill withdrawn
Revolt againest forcible feeding--"Cat and Mouse' act
Three years' Penal servitude for Mrs. Pankhurst
Emily Wilding Davison at the derby
Book 9
East 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 bodyguard"
East London Federation severed from WSPU---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 Deputaiton---Asquith's first step towards surrender
The Desperate flight of the "mice"---Lloyd George offers to resign
The European war and the Amnesty
Final---Votes for Women---The Victory
Index

The Suffragette Movement

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