female anti-suffragism in Britain
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bush, Julia
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 61 2007
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenkiesrecht, politieke stromingen, conservatisme, anti feminisme, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 1850-1899, 1900-1909, 1910-1919
- Description
- This book provides the first full account of the collective campaign by women who did not want the parliamentary vote. The provenance of their ideas is explained through analysis of three overlapping groups of women: maternal reformers (e.g. Mary Ward, Louise Creighton, Ethel Harrison, Elisabeth Wordsworth, Lucy Soulsby), women writers (e.g. Mary Ward, Eliza Lyn Linton, Marie Corelli, Charlotte Yonge), and imperialist ladies (e.g. Violet Markham, Gertrude Bell, Mary Kingsley, and Flora Shaw). These women are then followed into action as campaigners in their own right, as well as supporters of anti-suffrage men. The study extends into the wider area of women's social and political activism in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Britain.