Emily Davies and the Mid-Victorian Women's Movement

Emily Davies and the Mid-Victorian Women's Movement
Author: John Hendry
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2024-05-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198910231

The first scholarly biography of Emily Davies, a central figure in the women's movement of the long 1860s, and a significant new account of that movement, including its institutional origins; its social, political, religious and intellectual allegiances; and its relation to other major social and intellectual developments of the period.

Emily Davies

Emily Davies
Author: Emily Davies
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 622
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0813922321

Her intensely engaged life placed Davies at the very heart of the events that transformed her era.

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing
Author: Lesa Scholl
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1753
Release: 2022-12-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030783189

Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth century, a time that was intrinsically interdisciplinary in approach to scholarly writing and public intellectual engagement.

The Women's Movements in the United States and Britain from the 1790s to the 1920s

The Women's Movements in the United States and Britain from the 1790s to the 1920s
Author: Christine Bolt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317867297

This book presents a study of the development of the feminist movement in Britain and America during the 19th century. Acknowledging the similar social conditions in both countries during that period, the author suggests that a real sense of distinctiveness did exist between British and American feminists. American feminists were inspired by their own perception of the superiority of their social circumstances, for example, whereas British feminists found their cause complicated by traditional considerations of class. Christine Bolt aims to show that the story of the American and British women's movement is one of national distinctiveness within an international cause. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of American and British political history and women's studies.

Votes For Women

Votes For Women
Author: Sandra Holton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2002-01-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134610645

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.

Frances Power Cobbe

Frances Power Cobbe
Author: Sally Mitchell
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780813922713

An accessible narrative biography, Frances Power Cobbe traces the details of Cobbe's life and work, analyzes her writing, and sets both in the context of the social and intellectual debates of her time.

Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and the Victorian Feminist Movement

Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and the Victorian Feminist Movement
Author: Maureen Wright
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2013-07-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1847797628

This book provides the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833–1918) – someone referred to among contemporaries as ‘the grey matter in the brain’ of the late-Victorian women’s movement. A pacifist, humanitarian ‘free-thinker’, Wolstenholme Elmy was a controversial character and the first woman ever to speak from a public platform on the topic of marital rape. Lauded by Emmeline Pankhurst as ‘first’ among the infamous militant suffragettes of the Women’s Social and Political Union, Wolstenholme Elmy was one of Britain’s great feminist pioneers and, in her own words, an ‘initiator’ of many high-profile campaigns from the nineteenth into the twentieth century. Wright draws on an extensive resource of unpublished correspondence and other sources to produce an enduring portrait that does justice to Wolstenholme Elmy’s momentous achievements.

Suffrage Days

Suffrage Days
Author: Sandra Holton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2002-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134837879

This is an account of the British Suffrage movement from its inception until its victory in 1918. It is based around the experiences of seven women whose participation in the British Suffrage movement is little-known.

The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain, 1866-1928

The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain, 1866-1928
Author: S. van Wingerden
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1349274933

This book tells the story of the women's suffrage movement in Britain beginning with John Stuart Mill's proposal of a women's suffrage amendment to a reform bill. It ends with the victory of 1928, concluding more than 50 years of repeated defeats, anti-suffragism, militancy, imprisonment, hunger strikes and forcible feeding, and multiple internal splits and their only partial victory of 1918. It is not intended to break new ground in academia, but to provide an introduction to the general reader that covers the entire relevant time period and introduces major themes and issues.

Exchanges and Correspondence

Exchanges and Correspondence
Author: Claudette Fillard
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2010-08-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1443824429

Through the eighteen essays of this book, the reader becomes the beholder of a challenging survey of “feminism-in-the-making,” from its early stages in the 18th century to the present, in Anglo-Saxon countries and elsewhere, including Eastern Europe and some places under the influence of communism or Islam. The development of exchanges and correspondence enabled feminism to pre-exist the word itself, which leads several contributors to ponder over its meaning as well as over the notion of influence, a pivotal component of their reflection. Through the complex interplay of harmony and disharmony, openly acknowledged or carefully hidden similarities or differences, and the delineation of the converging or conflicting forces which the authors of this volume attempt to disentangle, a fascinating chorus of voices eventually emerges from this volume, a preview of the budding “sisterhood.” It throws light on the major factors in women’s growing consciousness of their plight and of the main stakes in the struggle for the defense of their rights. Scholars of different national origins and methodological approaches here join forces until the book itself amounts to an innovative web of exchanges and correspondences, its medium as well as its avowed message.