What the Suffragists Did Next
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What the Suffragists Did Next

How the fight for women's right went on

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eBook - ePub

What the Suffragists Did Next

How the fight for women's right went on

About this book

In 1918, David Lloyd George's post-war government passed the Representation of the People Act, and for the first time women were included in the political process. Women now accounted for nearly 50 per cent of the electorate, but universal suffrage was a long way off, and women still had to face censure and discrimination in their professional and personal lives.Thankfully, those who had fought for women's rights in the suffrage movement did not give up, and continued their work tirelessly to improve the lives of women and provide them with opportunities they otherwise would not have had, some for a further forty years.In this book, Mavis Curtis explores the work of eight such women who helped to promote the cause of women's rights and social equality: Eleanor Rathbone, Ellen Wilkinson, Maude Royden, Dr Isabel Emslie Hutton, Margaret Llewellyn Davies, Virginia Woolf, Eleanor Lodge and Helena Deneke. All reflect in their personal experiences the changes to women's lives and feminism during the twentieth century.With the centenary of the Act in 2018, this book brings to light for the women and men of today the names of some of those who paved the way for further equality in society.

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Information

Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781445661551
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Abbreviations
  3. Preface
  4. 1 - Looking Back
  5. 2 - Margaret Llewelyn Davies (1861–1944) and the Women’s Co-operative Guild
  6. 3 - Helena Deneke (1878–1973) and the Women’s Institute
  7. 4 - Eleanor Lodge (1869–1936) and Higher Education
  8. 5 - Maude Royden (1876–1956) and the Anglican Church
  9. 6 - Eleanor Rathbone (1872–1946) and Politics
  10. 7 - Ellen Wilkinson (1891–1947) and Socialist Politics
  11. 8 - Isabel Emslie Hutton (1887–1960) and the Medical Profession
  12. 9 - Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) and the Literary Scene
  13. 10 - Looking Forward
  14. Picture Section
  15. Bibliography
  16. Timeline
  17. Acknowledgements