Suffrage Days

Sandra Stanley Holton is Australian Research Fellow at the University

• Introduction 1 FROM ‘SURPLUS WOMAN’ TO INDEPENDENT PERSON Elizabeth Wolstenholme and the early women’s Movement 2 ‘THE REVOLT OF THE WOMEN’ Sexual subjection and sexual solidarity 3 A ‘STRANGE, ERRATIC GENIUS’ Jessie Craigen, working suffragist 4 ‘THE GRANDEST VICTORY’ Married women and the franchise 5 AMONG THE ‘INSURGENT WOMEN’ Hannah Mitchell, socialist and suffragist 6 ‘A MERRY, MILITANT SAINT’ Mary Gawthorpe and the argument of the stone 7 WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE AMONG THE BOHEMIANS Laurence Housman joins the movement 8 ‘ON THE HORNS OF A DILEMMA’ Alice Clark, liberal Quaker and democratic suffragist 9 MEN, WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE AND SEXUAL RADICALISM, 1912–14 10 WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR 11 LAST WORDS Women’s suffragists and women’s history after the vote

'This book... compels a re-evaluation of the whole (suffrage) movement, and its historiography... It is a must for anyone who wants to be informed about women's suffrage.' – The Fawcett Library Newsletter'This fine, impeccably researched book.' – The Times Higher Education Supplement'Her marvellous new book, Suffrage Days, is both sufficiently readable to engage new students' interest and sufficiently provocative in its aim and its fresh discoveries to engross old suffrage hands. Holton is a hard act to follow.' – Jill Liddington, University of Leeds.'A splendid job ... highly enjoyable.' – Reviews in History