Table of Contents
List of figures vii
List of contributors ix
Introduction June Purvis June Hannam 1
1 Millicent Fawcett (1847-1929): the making of a politician Elizabeth Crawford 10
2 Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928): the making of a militant June Purvis 25
3 'A particularly interesting kind of "heroine" to have': marriage, motherhood and votes for women in the archives of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918), feminist, rebel and radical Maureen Wright 43
4 Isabella Ford (1855-1924) and women's suffrage June Hannam 60
5 Suffragette palace: Sophia Duleep Singh (1876-1948), Hampton Court Palace and votes for women Elizabeth Baker 77
6 'Being militant in her own way': using the individual life of Lady Isabel Margesson (1863-1946) as a prism to explore complex suffrage histories Lesley Spiers 99
7 The wrong kind of working-class woman? Domestic servants in the British suffrage movement Laura Schwartz 118
8 Class and adult suffrage in Britain during the Great War Karen Hunt 136
9 A colonial for the cause: Lady Stout (1858-1931), suffrage and New Zealand as exemplar to the empire, 1909-1914 Monica Webb 155
10 Narratives of democracy, the emotions of politics and memories of militant suffragism: Britain, Ireland, the USA and Australia Sharon Crozier-De Rosa 179
11 Covering the suffragettes: Austrian newspapers reporting on militant women's rights activism in the United Kingdom Johanna Gehmacher 199
12 The influence of the British women's suffrage movement upon the emergence and development of the Japanese women's movement Hiroko Tomida 222
Index 240