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Clipping : "Suffragettes Fight Policemen All Night / Send Augustine Birrell to bed badly crippled and beaten, smash many windows." [November 23, 1910]
Account of rioting by suffragists in England, where women stormed the home of Prime Minister Asquith, smashed windows in the homes of members of Parliament, and attacked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Augustine Birrell. 156 women were reportedly…
Clipping : "Suffragettes Mob Premier Asquith / Hundred women arrested during riot following assault on prime minister." [November 23, 1910]
Account of attack on the Prime Minister H.H. Asquith by suffragists following a session in the House of Commons where he made a campaign promise to postpone discussion of a suffrage bill until the next parliament. Rioting and violence continued…
Clipping : "Petticoat War Again in England / Militant Suffragettes Reopen Hostilities on Houses of Parliament and furnish Amusement of Some of the U.S. Sailors." [November 18, 1910]
Account of a suffrage demonstration on Parliament in England led by Emmeline Pankhurst. 82 suffragists and supporters were arrested after bypassing a police cordon and making it to Prime Minister Asquith to demand introduction of the woman suffrage…
Clipping : "English Suffragette Leader Now In America." [October 22, 1909]
Photographs with captions:
"Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, English Suffragette Leader who Arrived in New York Yesterday for a Lecture Tour of the United States"
"Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, President of the Legion of Self-Supporting Women, and…
"Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, English Suffragette Leader who Arrived in New York Yesterday for a Lecture Tour of the United States"
"Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, President of the Legion of Self-Supporting Women, and…
Clipping : "American Women Decry Sensational Suffrage Campaign." [March 2, 1908]
Account of the disagreement between suffragists over the types of methods that should be employed to achieve their goals. Bettina Borrman Wells, of London England, advocates for militant methods to achieve women's suffrage and Harriet Stanton Blatch,…
Clipping : Should women use violence? Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Pictorial Review. Vol. 14. November 1912
Gilman discusses recent militant and sometimes violent tactics by suffragists in England and perceptions of violence by women. In order to conduct a fair evaluation of these tactics, she asks: Is violence ever justifiable? Are women ever justified in…
Pamphlet : Suffrage for Women Speech by John Stuart Mill in the British Parliament, May 20, 1867. Reprint. [Circa 1912]
In this address to Parliament, Mill argues that the the word "man" be changed to "person" in the bill they were debating, known as the Representation of the People Bill, later the Reform Bill of 1867. The motion lost by 123 votes.
The back…
The back…
Pamphlet : The physical force argument against woman suffrage by A. MacCallum Scott, M.P. 1912
Alexander MacCallum Scott was the Liberal M.P. for the Bridgeton constituency of Glasgow from 1910 until 1922.
In this article, he makes the argument that suffrage is not a necessary consequence of the principles of Democracy and Justice, but…
In this article, he makes the argument that suffrage is not a necessary consequence of the principles of Democracy and Justice, but…
Handbill : Are women citizens? [1909]
This flier, published by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies asks and answers several questions, including:
Are women citizens?
Does law concern women?
Is direct representation desirable in the interest of the people?
The reverse…
Are women citizens?
Does law concern women?
Is direct representation desirable in the interest of the people?
The reverse…
Invitation : National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies to a public meeting. December 13, 1906
Printed invitation from the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies to a public meeting in the Station Hall, Tithebarn Street, in Liverpool, England. The invitation lists the speakers, including Sir Edward Russell, Miss Ellen Robinson, the Rev.…