The Women's Victory - and After
Personal Reminiscences, 1911–1918

An account of the struggle for women's suffrage in England, by one of its leading participants, first published in 1920.

Millicent Garrett Fawcett (Author)

9781108026604, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 May 2011

200 pages, 5 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 1.2 cm, 0.26 kg

Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847–1929) was an influential writer on political and social matters, especially on topics such as female suffrage and women's education. She was one of the supporters of Newnham College, Cambridge, and was later offered the post of Mistress of Girton, but refused because of her commitment to women's suffrage. She was active as a Suffragist, and opposed the violence of the Suffragette movement. In 1918, women over thirty were given the vote, but this did not end Fawcett's struggle for equal rights, and full suffrage was not achieved until 1928. This work, published in 1920, looks back at the long campaign for women's suffrage, and concludes with an examination of what had actually been achieved in 1918. It supplements her 1911 work Women's Suffrage, a Short History of the Great MovementFor more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=fawcmi

1. The two deputations
2. The defeat of the Conciliation Bill
3. The election fighting fund
4. The fiasco of the Government Reform Bill
5. The pilgrimage and Derby Day, 1913
6. The turn of the tide
7. The World War and women's war work
8. Women's war work as it affected public opinion
9. The last phase
10. The difference the vote has made
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW]