Suffrage Reader Charting Directions in British Suffrage History

by Eustance, Claire; Ryan, Joan; Ugolini, Laura

• ISBN13: 9780718501785
• ISBN10: 0718501780
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Leicester Univ Pr

Author Biography

Margaret Barrow is Subject Specialist and User Education Librarian at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. Krista Cowman teaches in the School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University Claire Eustance was an organizer of the Seeing Through Suffrage Conference. She is a British co-editor of the journal Gender and History Julie Gottlieb was awarded a PhD by the University of Cambridge in 1998. She has published reviews in the Times Literary Supplement Lesley A. Hall is Senior Assistant Archivist in the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London. June Hannam is Principal Lecturer in History at the University of the West of England Sandra Stanley Holton is a Senior Australian Research Council Fellow in the History Department at the University of Adelaide Karen Hunt is a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University Angela V. John is Professor of History at the University of Greenwich Hilda Kean is a tutor in History and course director of the MA in Popular Memory and Public History at Ruskin College, Oxford Sowon S. Park is a research fellow at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford Joan Ryan is a Principal Lecturer in History at the University of Greenwich. Laura Ugolini completed her PhD in 1997. She is currently a Research Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Wolverhampton

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vi
Notes on Editors and Contributors	vii
Abbreviations	x
Introduction: Writing Suffrage Histories - the `British' Experience	1	(19)
Claire Eustance
Laura Ugolini
Joan Ryan
Reflecting on Suffrage History	20	(17)
Sandra Stanley Holton
`Crossing the Great Divide': Inter-organizational Suffrage Relationships on Merseyside, 1895-1914	37	(16)
Krista Cowman
`Suffragettes Are Splendid for Any Work': The Blathwayt Diaries as a Source for Suffrage History	53	(16)
June Hannam
Teetotal Feminists: Temperance Leadership and the Campaign for Women's Suffrage	69	(21)
Margaret Barrow
`Doing Justice to the Real Girl': The Women Writers' Suffrage League	90	(15)
Sowon S. Park
Suffragette Experience Through the Filter of Fascism	105	(21)
Julie Gottlieb
`It Is Only Justice to Grant Women's Suffrage': Independent Labour Party Men and Women's Suffrage, 1893-1905	126	(19)
Laura Ugolini
Between the Cause and the Courts: The Curious Case of Cecil Chapman	145	(17)
Angela V. John
Journeying Through Suffrage: The Politics of Dora Montefiore	162	(15)
Karen Hunt
Suffrage Autobiography: A Study of Mary Richardson - Suffragette, Socialist and Fascist	177	(13)
Hilda Kean
`What a Lot There Is Still to Do': Stella Browne (1880-1955) - Carrying the Struggle Ever Onward	190	(16)
Lesley A. Hall
Index	206