Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
INTRODUCTION
SIGNIFICANT DATES IN WOMEN’S STRUGGLE FOR EMANCIPATION AND
SUFFRAGE
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
SUFFRAGE ORGANIZATIONS
CHAPTER 1: THE ARGUMENTS
THE CASE FOR AND AGAINST WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
- Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill, from “Enfranchisement
ofWomen”
Lydia E. Becker, from “Female Suffrage”
“An Appeal Against Female Suffrage”
Millicent Garrett Fawcett, from “The Appeal Against FemaleSuffrage:
A Reply. I”
Mary Margaret Dilke, “The Appeal Against Female Suffrage:A Reply.
II”
From “Women’s Suffrage: A Reply”
T. Dundas Pillans, from Plain Truths About Woman Suffrage
H.B. Samuels, from Woman Suffrage: Its Dangers and Delusions
Harold Owen, from “Superfluous Woman” and “Sex andPolitics”
Heber L. Hart, from Woman Suffrage: A National Danger
THE QUESTION OF MILITANCY AND THE HUNGER STRIKE
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett, from “The Militant Societies”
Teresa Billington-Greig, from Suffragist Tactics: Past and
Present
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, from The New Crusade
Mona Caird, “Militant Tactics and Woman’s Suffrage”
Elizabeth Robins, from “The Hunger Strike”
Elizabeth Robins, “In Conclusion”
CHAPTER 2: WOMEN IN THE CAMPAIGN TELL THEIR STORIES
- Emmeline Pankhurst, from My Own Story
E. Sylvia Pankhurst, from The Suffragette Movement: An Intimate
Account of Persons and Ideals
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, from My Part in a Changing World
Annie Kenney, from Memories of a Militant
Cicely Hamilton, from Life Errant
Hannah Mitchell, from The Hard Way Up: The Autobiography of Hannah
Mitchell, Suffragette and Rebel
Constance Lytton, from Prisons and Prisoners: The Stirring
Testimony of a Suffragette
Memorial Statue of Mrs. Pankhurst: Mr. Baldwin’s Tribute
CHAPTER 3: SUFFRAGE POETRY AND SONGS
POETRY
- “A Jingle of the Franchise”
“Cautionary Tales in Verse”
From Holloway Jingles
SONGS
- “The Women’s Marseillaise”
“The March of the Women”
“Woman’s Song of Freedom”
[“When Good Queen Bess was on the Throne”]
“Christabel”
“Rise Up Women”
“Our Hard Case”
CHAPTER 4: SUFFRAGE DRAMA
- Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St. John, How the Vote Was Won:
A Play in One Act
Mary Cholmondeley, Votes for Men
Bessie Hatton, Before Sunrise
Cicely Hamilton, A Pageant of Great Women
Henry Arncliffe-Sennett, An Englishwoman’s Home: A Play in One
Act
Margaret Wynne Nevinson, In the Workhouse: A Play in One Act
Graham Moffat, The Maid and the Magistrate: A Duologue in One
Act
Evelyn Glover, A Chat with Mrs. Chicky: A Duologue
Evelyn Glover, Miss Appleyard’s Awakening: A Play in One Act
CHAPTER 5: SUFFRAGE FICTION
SHORT STORIES
- Evelyn Sharp, “The Women at the Gate”
Evelyn Sharp, “Shaking Hands with the Middle Ages”
Gertrude Colmore, “The Introduction”
Gertrude Colmore, “The Magical Musician”
W.L. Courtney, “The Soul of a Suffragette”
NOVELS
- Constance Elizabeth Maud, from No Surrender
Gertrude Colmore, from Suffragette Sally
BIBLIOGRAPHY
About the Author
Carolyn Christensen Nelson is a Senior Lecturer in
English literature at West Virginia University, USA. She is the
editor of A New Woman Reader: Fiction, Articles, and Drama of the
1890s (Broadview Press, 2001) and British Women Fiction Writers of
the 1890s (Twayne Publishers).
Reviews
This is the richest collection yet of suffrage materials, fully
introduced, annotated and illustrated. The initial contextualizing
of the campaign is followed by an impressive collection of
difficult-to-obtain literary texts. Satirical poetry and drama,
presented alongside formal political argument, and the passionate
testimonies of key campaigners, prove just how literary a campaign
this was. The vivid prison narratives, short stories and complete
one-act plays anthologized in this volume fully personalize the
campaign and give one a sense of how ordinary people were caught up
in the momentum of history. This is an invaluable anthology." -
Valerie Sanders, The University of Hull