British women's anti-suffragism and the forward policy, 1908-14

Women's History Review

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 431-454

  Bush, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 28044444622     PISSN: 09612025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09612020200200330     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (37)

1. Violet Markham (1912) Miss Violet Markham's Great Speech at the Albert Hall (London: National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage)
2. Jane Rendall (2000) The Citizenship of Women and the Reform Act of 1867, in Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland & Jane Rendall (2000) Defining the Victorian Nation. Class, Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867, p. 169 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
3. Hall et al, Defining the Victorian Nation
4. Sandra Holton (1986) Feminism and Democracy, ch. 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
5. This point is supported by Kathryn Gleadle (2001) British Women in the Nineteenth Century, p. 169 (Basingstoke: Palgrave)
6. Martin Pugh (2000) The March of the Women. A Revisionist Analysis of the Campaign for Women's Suffrage, 1866-1914, p. 4 (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
7. Gleadle, British Women in the Nineteenth Century, p. 171
8. An Appeal Against Women's Suffrage (1889) The Nineteenth Century, 25 June, pp. 781-787
9. Mary Ward to Louise Creighton, 18 April and 1 May 1889. Ward papers, Pusey House Library, Oxford. 3/3/1
10. An Appeal Against Women's Suffrage, The Nineteenth Century, p. 781
11. Information on these women's social action is available in their correspondence and auto/biographical writings, including Mary Ward (1918) A Writer's Recollections (London: W. Collins); Janet Trevelyan (1923) The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward (London: Constable); Frederic Harrison (1917) Memoir and Essays of Ethelbertha Harrison (Bath: Isaac Pitman & Sons); Louise Creighton (1994) Memoir of a Victorian Woman: reflections of Louise Creighton 1850-1936 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). Amongst the numerous secondary sources on late Victorian social action, a particularly important analysis is provided (with extensive reference to Mary Ward, Beatrice Webb and Violet Markham) in Jane Lewis (1991) Women and Social Action in Victorian and Edwardian England (Stanford: Stanford University Press)
12. Mary Ward (1908) Diana Mallory (London: Smith, Elder & Co.) and (1915) Delia Blanchflower (London: Ward, Lock & Co.)
13. Ethel B. Harrison (1908) The Freedom of Women (London: Watts & Co.)
14. Mary Ward (1908) Is Woman Suffrage Inevitable? (London: Women's National Anti-Suffrage League). Letter to The Times (June 1908), reprinted as a leaflet. The ideas and activism of American anti-suffragists are discussed in Jane Camhi (1994) Women against Women. American Anti-Suffragism 1880-1920 (New York: Carlson)
15. Anti-Suffrage Review, December 1908
16. Anti-Suffrage Review, March 1909
17. Anti-Suffrage Review, July 1910
18. Brian Harrison (1978) Separate Spheres. The Opposition to Women's Suffrage in Britain, pp. 133 and 136 (New York: Holmes & Meier)
19. Martin Pugh, The March of the Women, ch. 7
20. John Sutherland (1991) Mrs Humphry Ward. Eminent Victorian, Pre-eminent Edwardian (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
21. Lord Cromer to Lord Curzon, 16 July 1910. Curzon papers, British Library (CP). MSS Eur. F.112/33A
22. Violet Markham to Lord Cromer, 24 October 1910. Cromer papers, Public Record Office. FO 633/19
23. Anti-Suffrage Review, August 1911
24. Report of the Annual Council Meeting, Anti-Suffrage Review, July 1914
25. Ethel Colquhoun (1913) Quo Vadis, Femina? The Nineteenth Century and After, 13 March, p. 527
26. Ethel Colquhoun (1913) The Vocation of Women, pp. 8, 321, 339 (London: Macmillan)
27. Ethel Harrison (1913) Abdication, The Nineteenth Century and After, 74, December, p. 1335
28. S.M. Mitra (1913) Voice for Women - without Votes, The Nineteenth Century and After, 74, November, pp. 998-1007
29. Ethel Harrison , Abdication, p. 1335
30. Ethel Harrison, The Freedom of Women, p. 29
31. Caroline Stephen (1908) also wrote an extended article on A Consultative Chamber of Women, The Nineteenth Century and After, 64, December, pp. 1018-1024
32. Violet Markham (1910) A Proposed Women's Council, National Review, 55, July, pp. 1029-1038
33. See the National Union of Women Workers Handbooks and Reports, published annually. British Library of Political and Economic Science
34. Speech by Mrs Allan H Bright, NUWW President, at the Extraordinary Meeting of the National Council of Women (NUWW) on 20 November 1912. NUWW Handbook and Report 1912-13, p. 200
35. Minutes of the Extraordinary Meeting, 20 November 1912. NUWW Handbook 1912-13, pp. 199-224
36. Ethel Harrison to Lord Curzon, 28 November 1912. Curzon papers. MSS Eur. F. 112/35
37. Louise Creighton to Ida Koch, 12 February 1913. Creighton papers. MSS 3678/148