ES , writing in the later nineteenth and the early twentieth century, published half a dozen novels which combine romance with, in some cases, a thesis about politics or gender politics. Her rate of output was not high. In her youth she gave speeches in favour of women's suffrage; late in her career she published a translation and (jointly) an anthology of patriotic poetry.

Viva was the widow of Harry Jeyes , Assistant Editor of the London Standard; she served as Honorary Secretary of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League .

The women's right to enter was put to a vote, and delegates voted them out. One speaker said that admitting them would be subversive of the principles and traditions of the country and contrary to the Word of God. This was a formative event for AS . With a seed of discontent planted in her mind, she resolved to oppose this indignity and to help her sex to take their proper place in the body politic. In her time she gave support to the campaigns for suffrage, for a mother's claim to her own child, for married women's control of their own property, for higher education of women, and against the Contagious Diseases Acts.

GB , a supporter of the anti-suffrage movement, became a founding member of the Woman's National Anti-Suffrage League .

Their wedding guests included literary and society celebrities. The bride wore a dress of ivory duchesse satin, and her veil of old lace and orange blossoms was fastened with diamond stars, her ornaments were pearls and diamonds, and her bouquet was composed of white Eucharis lilies and stephanotis. Henry Birchenough came from a silk-manufacturing family in the Midlands. He was highly educated (partly in France), and was on record as supporting the Manchester suffrage activities of Lydia Becker and others. The couple went on to have two children, both girls.

DB 's mother, Jane Maria (Grant), Lady Strachey , was born on 13 March 1840 aboard an East India Company ship off the Cape of Good Hope. Her parents were Henrietta Chichele (of an aristocratic Anglo-Indian family) and Sir John Peter Grant. Jane Grant met Richard Strachey in India in 1858 and they married on 4 January 1859. She counted George Eliot and Millicent Garrett Fawcett among her friends, and campaigned for women's suffrage. Her passionate interests included French and Elizabethan literature, the philosophy of John Stuart Mill , classical music, and billiards. She published several books: Lay Texts for the Young, in English and French (1887), Nursery Lyrics and other Verses for Children (1893), and Poets on Poets (1894). She delivered thirteen children, ten of whom survived infancy.

This story stands out from MC 's other short fiction in its overt engagement with political and feminist issues, as well as for its ingenious role-reversal. It is set in the distant future when men have lost the right to vote and women dominate the political sphere. The story is structured as a dialogue between the Prime Minister and her husband taking place during a men's suffrage demonstration. The husband, Henry, presents arguments in favour of men's suffrage only to have them refuted in terms resembling those used in MC 's time against female suffrage. In response to the argument that men do the work of the world, the Prime Minister responds that Man has his sphere, and a very important and useful sphere in life it is. She also points out that the brawling behaviour of the militant male suffragists puts back the cause of men's reinfranchisement by fifty years. It shows how unsuited the sex is to be trusted with the vote. Imagine that sort of hysterical screaming in the House itself. The story identifies destructive effects of governance by a single sex, pointing to mistakes made by male rulers, but also representing the birthrate in its new world as having dropped to such low levels that the female Prime Minister is contemplating compelling women to give birth while they are of child-bearing years. The vision is bleak no matter which gender is in charge. The story ends with Henry giving up his suffrage ideals. He says, I realise these wrigglings of the under dog are unseemly, and only disturb the equanimity and good-will of the top dog.

EHD described her mother, Marian (MacMahon) Hepworth Dixon as a woman with innate good taste and good manners; she would be just as amiable to a governess as to a duchess. Her mother held progressive views: she attended all Ibsen 's plays (by herself) when they were first produced (and were widely seen as shocking) and was almost, the first woman in London to employ a woman doctor in childbirth (which she did for her youngest child). She was something of a suffragist, for Ella writes that she presented me, on my return from school-days in Germany, with a petition to sign for women's suffrage.

ATG was a strong supporter, through her writings and through organising petitions and local action, of the abolition movement and of improving the material conditions of the poor. Women's suffrage, however, was beyond her range of sympathy, and she wrote a letter against it in February 1849.

NJ began her political life as a Tory who thought Socialism deeply shocking, like all or most of the older generation of her very mixed family. She went out canvassing at elections, urging people to vote without thinking it odd that she had no vote herself. She was converted to the suffrage cause by hearing Teresa Billington speak. She became a member of the Women's Social and Political Union in 1912, organized meetings, suffered physical violence, and visited London as a delegate to the first WSPU conference. She admired Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst , but especially Charlotte Despard . She became a campaigner, too, for the Labour Party . At Selsey, though she promised to abstain from suffrage work during the visit of an important politician, she concealed an alarm clock in a biscuit tin to simulate a bomb, and caused considerable alarm. Looking back later and anxious not to sound too earnest about a now long-distant cause, she suggested that the most valuable thing about her suffrage experience was that it had made her think.

Daphne Sandomir's character is based on those many middle-class women activists involved in suffrage and peace organizations like the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies , the Peace Pledge Union , and the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace (later Women's International League).

With her sisters Eva and Mabel , Constance Gore-Booth (later Markievicz) launched a branch of the Irish Women's Suffrage and Local Government Association ; this was one of the first of such organizations in Ireland.

EN was, and remained later in her life, opposed to women's suffrage. Laurence Housman thought that this stance was influenced by her husband: this was probably true, though the situation was also more complicated. Her grounds for refusing to support the Conciliation Bill in 1910 were that the million women who would acquire the vote by this means would be mostly Conservatives, and that the Bill therefore threatened a death-blow to socialism. This was an entirely rational argument, though it might also have served as a cloak for prejudice or for the kind of small-c conservatism that EN sometimes displayed on matters of daily life and manners.

Despite her lifelong status as breadwinner, and almost lifelong status as head of her family, MO actively opposed, through her writings, the suffrage movement and other moves to promote the social equality of women with men.

During this period, Richardson also became involved in the suffrage cause. She visited her friend Leslie-Jones at Holloway Prison after the latter was arrested during the Easter Sunday march of 1907. In a letter to another friend, Peggy Kirkaldy , in 1928 DR notes that for some time the suffrage cause diverted me from all else, but no specific information on her suffragism is currently available.

Notwithstanding these affiliations, however, she declined to support women's suffrage when requested by Augusta Webster around 1878. In a letter to Webster she stated: I do not think the present social movements tend on the whole to uphold Xtianity, or that the influence of some of our most prominent and gifted women is exerted in that direction: and thus thinking I cannot aim at women's rights. She also took exception to the exclusion of married women from the suffrage, noting that if anything it was maternal love which made women formidable adversaries, for who so apt as Mothers . . . to protect the interests of themselves and their offspring? Instead, she signed Mary Ward 's anti-suffrage protest in the Nineteenth Century. The protest asserted the conviction of 104 signatories that the pursuit of a mere outward equality with men is for women not only vain but demoralising. It leads to a total misconception of women's true dignity and special mission. She showed her continuing concern with women's welfare by circulating tracts and petitions in the 1883 and 1884 campaign to raise the age of consent—the campaign which resulted in the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 21 August 1885, an attempt to end the traffic in young girls for sexual purposes.

Davies-Colley (who was the first woman to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons ) and Chadburn, overwhelmed and over-worked at their Harley Street Women's Hospital , asked HSW to help them lead a campaign to raise £20,000 for a hospital at Clapham Common that would be staffed by women and reserved for women patients. To solicit donations, HSW wrote to The Anti-Suffrage Review and Women's Employment, while better-known public figures, such as Lady Robert Cecil , wrote to the Times and other mainstream journals. The campaign piqued the interest of wealthy philanthropists, who anonymously donated a total of £93,000. The foundation-stone was laid on 1 July 1913, by Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll .

Beatrice Potter (later BW ) signed the Ladies' Appeal against Women's Suffrage (Mrs Humphry Ward 's anti-suffrage manifesto), feeling at this date that economic issues outweighed any question of the vote.

Later RW became a strong advocate for the suffrage cause through her journalism. To ensure her intellectual independence, she refrained from joining feminist organisations, though she admired feminist activists such as Emmeline Pankhurst and Emily Davison .

In London, EB served briefly as a volunteer for the suffrage movement. She collected signatures in favour of women's suffrage outside a polling booth during the General Election in January 1910.