Historian Sandra Stanley Holtoncontends that The Suffragette established a plot around which future militant accounts were drawn, a storyline that organised material around dichotomous categorisation of suffragists as radical or conservative, militant or non-militant...
Timeline
7 November 1911: The British Prime Minister, Herbert Henry...
National or international item
7 November 1911
The British Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith
, told members of the People's Suffrage Federation
that his Liberal government would bring forward, next session, a Manhood Suffrage Bill or Reform Bill.
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914.
318-19
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
116-17, 171
Texts
Purvis, June. “’Deeds, Not Words’: Daily Life in the Women’s Social and Political Union in Edwardian Britain”. Votes for Women, edited by Sandra Stanley Holton and June Purvis, Routledge, 2000, pp. 135-58.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996.
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.