Women's suffrage: a short history of a great movement

by Millicent Garrett Fawcett

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE

A SHORT HISTORY OF A

GREAT MOVEMENT

By MILLICENT GARRETT

FAWCETT, LL.D.

PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE SOCIETIES

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It is not to be thought of that the flood
Of British freedom, which to the open sea
Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity
Hath flowed "with pomp of waters unwithstood"—
Road by which all might come and go that would,
And bear out freights of worth to foreign lands;
That this most famous stream in bogs and sands
Should perish, and to evil and to good
Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung
Armoury of the invincible knights of old:
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake—the laith and morals hold
Which Milton held. In everything we're sprung
Of earth's first blood, have titles manifold.

—W. Wordsworth.

Chapters (not listed in original)

• Chapter 1: The beginnings
• Chapter 2: Women's suffrage question in parliament first stage
• Chapter 3: Throwing the women overboard in 1884
• Chapter 4: Women's suffrage in Greater Britain
• Chapter 5: The anti-suffragists
• Chapter 6: The militant societies
• Chapter 7: Recent developments
• A brief review of the women's suffrage movement since its beginning in 1832
• List of books
• Index