Table of Contents
Introduction
1 The Early Years
The New Woman 12
The Struggle for Women's Suffrage: The 1866 Petition 13
The Cause behind the Campaign 15
2 The Campaign
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies 18
Women's Social and Political Union 19
Women's Freedom League 21
3 The ANTIs
National League for Opposing Women's Suffrage 23
The Arguments Against 24
4 Art For Votes' Sake
Annie Swynnerton 26
Sylvia Pankhurst 27
Ernestine Mills 28
Olive Hockin 30
Edith Hinchley 31
May Morris 31
Emily Ford 31
Clemence Housman 32
A Patriot (Alfred Pearse) 33
Flying Colours: Suffrage Banners 33
Mary Lowndes 33
Photographers 34
Lena Connell 34
The Anti-league in Art 35
5 Performing Women's Suffrage
Revolting Women: The Monstrous Regiments 39
Joan of Alt 40
Funeral 42
Pilgrimage 43
6 Acting Up! The Actresses' Franchise League
Prologue 44
Actresses, Writers and Stage Designers 48
Inez Bensusan 48
Ellen Terry 49
Cicely Hamilton 51
Edith Craig 51
Christopher St John 53
Elizabeth Robins 53
Pamela Colman Smith 54
Other Feminist Theatres 54
The Pioneer Players 55
The Play Actors 56
The Propaganda Players 57
Performances at WSPU's Women's Suffrage Exhibition, Princes' Skating Rink, Knightsbridge for 13-26 May 1909 57
Performances at National WSPU's Christmas Fair and Festival, 1911 59
Other Players 60
Laurence Alma-Tadema 60
Lena Ashwell 61
Elizabeth Baker 61
Jenny (Mrs Herbert) Cohen 61
Jess Dorynne 61
Beatrice Forbes Robertson 61
Gertrude Elliott 62
Gabrielle Enthoven 62
Rosina Filippi 62
Evelyn Glover 63
Beatrice Harraden 63
Kate Harvey 63
Bessie Hatton 63
Marian Emma Holmes 64
Annie Horniman 64
Laurence Housman 64
Violet Hunt 65
Gertrude Jennings 65
Dame Madge Kendal 65
Dame Edith Lyttelton 65
Margaret Mack 65
Winifred Mayo 66
Lillah McCarthy 66
M. Slieve McGowan 66
Decima Moore 67
Eva Moore 67
Margaret Wynne Nevinson 67
Adela Pankhurst 68
'George Paston' 68
Madeleine Lucette Ryley 68
Sime Seruya 69
Athene Seyler 69
Mabel Annie St Clair Stohart 69
Sybil Thorndike 70
Violet and Irene Vanbrugh 70
Vera Wentworth 70
Edith Zangwill 71
Israel Zangwill 71
7 Music
March of the Women 72
Ethel Smyth 73
8 Spreading the Word
Meetings 74
Platform Speakers: Richmond-upon-Thames and Wimbledon 75
Bertrand Russell 75
Lady Frances Balfour 76
Soapbox Oratory: Rose Lamartine Yates 76
The Garden Party 80
9 Forms of Protest
Tax Resistance 82
Census Boycott 82
The Argument of the Broken Window 83
Kitty Marion 83
Lilian Lenton 84
Hunger Strikes 84
10 Off With Corsets! The Fashion Revolution 88
11 Gilding the Lily
Badges 91
Presentation Jewellery 92
Personal Jewellery 94
How Tax Resistance Served the Suffrage Campaign 95
12 Contemporary Responses to the Suffrage Movement
Television 96
Theatre 97
Art 98
Ann Dingsdale and the 1866 Women's Suffrage Petition 98
History Recorded in the Subversive Stitch 99
Four Generations 99
13 1832-1928: Three Generations of Women Dedicate their lives to Winning Equality 101
14 The Long Century of Catching-Up for Women Worldwide 108
15 Collection of Suffrage Anthems 110
Bibliography 119
