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Late 1859
The offices of The English Woman's Journal...

The Langham Place Women or Langham Place Group inaugurated middle-class feminism in Britain by championing as a set of interrelated issues the causes of married women's property rights, equality in education and the workplace, and, to a lesser extent, women's suffrage. One factor contributing to the long-term success of the group was the balance of such radicalism with the more reform-oriented pragmatism.

1912-1914
Numerous music hall sketches satirized the...

Numerous music hall sketches satirized the women's suffrage movement. A typical sketch from 1912, Helping the Cause, starred Lillie Langtry and lampooned the figure of the wealthy woman suffrage supporter.
Russell, Dave. “Varieties of life: the making of the Edwardian music hall”. The Edwardian Theatre: Essays on Performance and the Stage, edited by Michael R. Booth and Joel H. Kaplan, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 61-85.
80, 85n46

31 January 1926
The Women's Service Library, later known...

The library housed the collection of materials relating to the suffrage movement held by the London and National Society for Women's Service (formerly the London Society for Women's Suffrage and later the Fawcett Society ). The first full-time librarian, Vera Douie , built up the collection over the next four decades, so that the Library became a major research centre for women's issues.

1913
Frances Frederica Montrésor published a novel...

Frances Frederica Montrésor published a novel exploring suffrage titled The Strictly Trained Mother.

By October 1892
Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy left the Women's...

Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy left the Women's Franchise League , which took an all or nothing stand, to form the Women's Emancipation Union in support of the granting of women's suffrage by stages.
Rubinstein, David. Before the Suffragettes: Women’s Emancipation in the 1890s. Harvester, 1986.
44, 144, 160n25
Holton, Sandra Stanley. “Women and the Vote”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis and June Purvis, University College London, 1995, pp. 277-05.
285
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996.
83
David Rubenstein is the only source for the date of this inaugural meeting. Sandra Stanley Holton, who has provided important recent information on the WEU, gives no date. She refers to a text entitled Women's Emancipation Union. An Association of Workers to Secure the Political, Social, and Economic Independence of Women, Congleton, November 1891, but does not specify what this text is.

19 May 1906
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, newly-elected...

The deputation included 350 persons representing twenty-five women's organizations as well as parliamentary supporters of women's suffrage. Some of these organizations included the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies , the Women's Social and Political Union , the Women's Liberal Federation , the British Women's Temperance Association , the Women's Industrial Council , and the Women's Cooperative Guild . Individual members of the deputation included Isabella Ford , Ethel Snowden , Emily Davies , and Members of Parliament Keir Hardie , Sir Charles McLaren , Philip Snowden , and Henry York Stanger .

1 June 1912
Women suffragists, nationalists and trades...

Women suffragists, nationalists and trades unionists held a mass meeting in Dublin to insist that female suffrage be included in the Home Rule Bill; their demands were ignored by the Irish Parliamentary Party .
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
51-3
Ward, Margaret. “’Suffrage First--Above All Else!’ An Account of the Irish Suffrage Movement”. Feminist Review, Vol.
10
, 1982, pp. 21-36.
27

June 1866
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony , who had been working for years to gain suffrage for women in the United States, thought the proposition of a new amendment for granting Negroes the vote was a wonderful opportunity to amend the Constitution in women's favour. They had been fighting since December 1865 to make sure the word male was not incorporated into the section of the amendment that referred to suffrage, and were deeply disappointed when the new amendment was drafted to exclude women.

12 November 1908
The Times published a letter by the National...

The Times published a letter by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies stating their disapproval of suffragette militancy; the letter had been sent to all Members of Parliament as well as the press.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
52-3

Probably 1873
Isabella Tod founded the North of Ireland...

Isabella Tod founded the North of Ireland Women's Suffrage Society , the first Irish suffrage group.
Murphy, Cliona. The Women’s Suffrage Movement and Irish Society in the Early Twentieth Century. Temple University Press, 1989.
17-18

23 October 1906
During a demonstration at the opening of...

The WSPU had called a conference for the week preceding the opening of parliament, which they were counting on to resolve delicate matters of its constitution, its goals, and its relation to other suffrage and socialist organizations.

8 March 1907
With the support of the National Union of...

With the support of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies , Liberal Member of Parliament Willoughby H. Dickinson introduced a Women's Enfranchisement Bill for its second reading.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
34-5

November 1912
In the Conservative and Unionist Women's...

In the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Review, the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association argued in favour of women's franchise in Ireland on the grounds that it would delay full adult suffrage.
Murphy, Cliona. The Women’s Suffrage Movement and Irish Society in the Early Twentieth Century. Temple University Press, 1989.
22
Murphy, Cliona. The Women’s Suffrage Movement and Irish Society in the Early Twentieth Century. Temple University Press, 1989.
22, 47n33

1916
Four years before American women won the...

Four years before American women won the right to the suffrage (on 18 August 1920) Jeanette Rankin became the first woman elected to the USCongress .
Loth, Renée. “A Lone Woman’s Voice”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
23
, No. 5, Sept.–Oct. 2006, pp. 18-19.
18-19

Between 1881 and 1886
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony,...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton , Susan B. Anthony , and Matilda Joslyn Gage published the first three volumes of their History of Woman Suffrage. They dedicated the first volume to the memory of Mary Wollstonecraft .
Dow, Bonnie J. “How the Battle of Memory Was Won”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 5, Sept.–Oct. 2014, pp. 3-4.
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