National Society for Women's Suffrage

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
politics Lydia Becker
A majority of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage voted to affiliate with non-suffrage women's organizations. Dissidents, including LB and Millicent Garrett Fawcett , walked out.
Purvis, June. Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography. Routledge.
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politics Jane Hume Clapperton
In this year JHC joined the Edinburgh branch of the National Society for Women's Suffrage .
Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge.
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politics Anna Kingsford
Beginning even before her marriage, AK was a vocal supporter of women's suffrage. In 1867 she canvassed for signatures on a petition that supported married women's property rights, and in 1868 wrote several stories and...
Textual Features Mabel Birchenough
One particularly interesting character is Miss Lanion, the domineering college secretary. One of the students, Kitty, describes her as being short and decidedly stout, but of so majestic and imposing a carriage these details were...

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Texts

Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith. Reasons For and Against the Enfranchisement of Women. National Society for Women’s Suffrage, 1872.
Cobbe, Frances Power. Why Women Desire the Franchise. National Society for Women’s Suffrage, 1869.