Format:
1 Online-Ressource (297 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0719081092
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1781700036
,
1847794572
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9780719081095
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9781781700037
,
9781847794574
Series Statement:
Gender in History
Content:
This book provides the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918) - someone referred to among contemporaries as?the grey matter in the brain? of the late-Victorian women?s movement. A pacifist, humanitarian?free-thinker?, Wolstenholme Elmy was a controversial character and the first woman ever to speak from a public platform on the topic of marital rape. Lauded by Emmeline Pankhurst as?first? among the infamous militant suffragettes of the Women?s Social and Political Union, Wolstenholme Elmy was one of Britain?s great feminist pioneers and, in her own words, an
Content:
7 'The cold dark night is past': August 1899-May 19068 'At eventide there will be light': June 1906-March 1918; Conclusion Women ... will never know how much they owe to her; New Year's Day 1900 War Against War in South Africa, 29 December 1899; Select bibliography; Index
Content:
9780719081095; 9780719081095; Copyright; Contents; List of plates; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; The song of the insurgent women; Figure 1 Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy at her writing tableSource: Reproduced with the permission of Congleton Museum; Introduction; 1 The making of a feminist: 1833-61; 2 Headmistress: The education campaign1862-67; 3 The 'parliamentary watchdog':1868-Spring 1874; 4 Calvary to resurrection: Summer 1874-82; 5 The 'great mole' of the women's movement:1883-90; 6 The Women's Emancipation Union,1891-July 1899: 'no mere suffrage society'
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wright, Maureen Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and the Victorian Feminist Movement : The Biography of an Insurgent Woman Manchester : Manchester University Press, ©2011 ISBN 9780719081095
Language:
English
Keywords:
Biography
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