Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women's Suffrage Movement Book

Suffrage Days focuses on a number of figures whose role in this agitation has been ignored or neglected. Through the lives of these figures Holton vividly uncovers the complex origins of the movement and associated issues of gender.

This account of the British suffrage movement from its inception until its victory in 1918 is based around the experiences of seven individuals whose participation in the British suffrage movement is little-known: Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, Jessie Craigen, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Hannah Mitchell, Mary Gawthorpe, Laurence Housman, and Alice Clark. Through their stories and perceptions the author addresses issues such as: a previously unacknowledged Radical-Liberal current in the nineteenth century movemen; the transatlantic links between Radical suffragists; the national and international significance of the Women's Franchise League; and some nineteenth century origins of suffrage militancy.