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Mary Hamilton
Outlines the career of this academic and parliamentarian in the early twentieth century.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whamilton.htm
Sophia Jex-Blake
Outlines her efforts to become one of the first female doctors in the United Kingdom, and the subsequent foundation of a Women's Medical School.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wjex.htm
Annie Kenney
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wkenney.htm
Anne Knight
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wknight.htm
Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Welmy.htm
Schooling
Explains how attitudes to girls' education began to change at the end of the nineteenth century.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wschool.htm
Careers & Professions
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wcareer.htm
Birth Control
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wbirth.htm
Industrial Work
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wwork.htm
Kensington Society
Describes how a women's discussion group formed in London in 1865 was the forerunner of the movement for suffrage.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wkensington.htm
Liberal Women's Suffrage Society
Describes the origins of this organisation, with excerpts from the memoirs of founding members.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wliberal.htm
Men's League For Women's Suffrage
Explains how several prominent figures expressed their support for the women's movement in the early twentieth century.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wmen.htm
Anti-Suffrage League
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wanti.htm
Parliamentary Campaigns
Describes attempts by the supporters of women's suffrage to lobby politicians in an effort to gain support for Bills which would allow women to vote.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wparliament.htm
Arson Campaign
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Warson.htm
Hunger Strikes
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whunger.htm
Cat & Mouse Act
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wcat.htm
Women's Pilgrimage
Describes how 50,000 members of suffrage societies marched to London in 1913 in support of the campaign for voting rights.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wpilgimage.htm
First World War Work
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wfirst.htm
1883 Corrupt Practices Act
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PR1883.htm
1918 Qualification of Women Act
Explains how years of debate and protest resulted in Parliament allowing women to vote in a British General Election for the first time.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/W1918.htm
Marriage
Describes the changing attitudes to a woman's role, including her rights within the relationship.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wmarriage.htm
Women and University Education
Describes the lengthy campaign to increase educational opportunities for women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Includes excerpts from accounts by some of the key figures.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wuniversity.htm
Jennie Lee
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUlee.htm
Constance Lytton
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wlytton.htm
Louisa Martindale
Provides information on this pioneering feminist and her medical career in the early twentieth century.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wmartindale.htm
Harriet Martineau
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wmartineau.htm
Unitarian
Explains how this society, established in 1791, became active in the late nineteenth century movements for factory reforn, public health, prison reform, temperance, women's rights and the abolition of slavery.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRunitarian.htm
Teresa Billington-Greig
Describes why this schoolteacher founded the Women's Freedom League in 1907 and how she subsequently campaigned for more women to be allowed seats in the House of Commons.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wbillington.htm
1928 Equal Franchise Act
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/W1928.htm
Salvation Army
Describes how this organisation was founded, and the changes it sought to implement with regard to social inequality and poor living conditions.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REsalvation.htm
Barbara Bodichon
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wbodichon.htm
Margaret Bondfield
Describes the life of one of the first women to be elected as a Member of Parliament in Britain.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wbondfield.htm
Catherine Booth
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wbooth.htm
Josephine Butler
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wbutler.htm
Clementina Black
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wblack.htm
Selina Cooper
Describes the life and political career of this pioneering unionist and feminist who became a well-known public speaker in the early twentieth century.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wcooper.htm
Frances Buss
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wbuss.htm
Women's Industrial Society
Explains how this organisation arose from the Women's Trade Union League and subsequently conducted investigations used to persuade Parliament to take action against the exploitation of women in the workplace.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Windustrial.htm
Marie Corbett
Gives information about a founding member of the suffrage movement.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wcorbett.htm
Margery Corbett-Ashby
Describes her involvement in campaigns for women's rights throughout the twentieth century.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Washby.htm
Cicely Corbett-Fisher
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wfisher.htm
Constance Markievicz
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wmarkiewicz.htm
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WandersonE.htm
Women's Social and Political Union
Details the evolution of this group from being purely political to engaging in militant acts in the course of campaigning for the female vote. Includes excerpts from the memoirs of suffragettes imprisoned for their actions and beliefs.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wwspu.htm
Frances Balfour
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wbalfour.htm
National Union of Suffrage Societies
Explains how this organisation was formed in 1887, and describes some of its prominent members and major achievements.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wnuwss.htm
Dorothea Beale
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wbeale.htm
Lydia Becker
Describes the life of this member of the suffrage movement in the late nineteenth century.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wbecker.htm
Emily Davison
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wdavison.htm
Emily Davies
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wdavies.htm
Mary Gawthorpe
Explains her role in forming the Women's Social and Political Union in 1905.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wgawthorpe.htm
Katharine Glasier
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wglasier.htm
Charlotte Despard
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wdespard.htm
Millicent Fawcett
Describes the career of this early feminist who helped found Newnham College at Cambridge University.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WfawcettM.htm
Mary Fildes
Describes the life of this pioneering feminist in the early nineteenth century.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRfields.htm
Chartist
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/chartism.htm
Isabella Ford
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wford.htm
Elizabeth Fry
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REfry.htm
Annie Besant
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wbesant.htm
Rachel McMillan
Describes the career of this socialist and feminist in the late nineteenth century, particularly her efforts to improve the physical and intellectual welfare of slum children.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WmcmillanR.htm
Hannah Mitchell
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wmitchell.htm
Florence Nightingale
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REnightingale.htm
Caroline Norton
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wnorton.htm
Christabel Pankhurst
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WpankhurstC.htm
Emmeline Pankhurst
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WpankhurstE.htm
Sylvia Pankhurst
Describes the life and achievements of this pacifist, historian, feminist and humanitarian in the early twentieth century.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WpankhurstS.htm
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wpethick.htm
Elizabeth Robins
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wrobins.htm
Ethel Annakin Snowden
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wsnowden.htm
Marie Stopes
Biography of the feminist crusader who established Britain's first birth control clinic. Includes excerpts from her letters.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wstopes.htm
Women's Freedom League
Explains how this group broke away from the equally militant but more violent Women's Social and Political Union in the early twentieth century.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wfreedom.htm
Harriet Taylor
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wtaylor.htm
Elizabeth Thompson
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jbutler.htm
Muriel de la Warr
Outlines the contribution of this feminist and socialist to the suffrage movement.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wwarr.htm
Beatrice Webb
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUwebbB.htm
Octavia Wilberforce
Describes the difficulties this woman faced in gaining her medical degree in the early twentieth century, and how she went on to help establish and run a women's hospital and a convalescent home.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wwilberforce.htm
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