Women's Franchise League

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
politics Emmeline Pankhurst
The Women's Franchise League , formed this month, was conceived and planned at EP 's home in Russell Square, London.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969.
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Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan, 1967.
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Timeline

25 July 1889
The Women's Franchise League , an organisation committed to including married women in future women's suffrage proposals, was formed in London by Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy , Alice Scatcherd , and Harriet M'Ilquham and others.
25 July 1889
The Women's Franchise League , an organisation committed to including married women in future women's suffrage proposals, was formed in London by Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy , Alice Scatcherd , and Harriet M'Ilquham and others.
30 April 1892
The House of Commons debated a women's suffrage bill, introduced by Conservative member Sir Albert Rollit , which would have allowed women with local government franchise to vote in parliamentary elections, but the bill failed...
By October 1892
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.