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Collection: Women's Suffrage
The Commons Debate on Woman Suffrage (1908)
Slim pamphlet titled ‘The Commons Debate on Woman Suffrage with a reply by Christabel Pankhurst, L.L.B.’, which begins: “The second reading of the Women’s Enfranchisement Bill has been carried by a large majority, and our object now is to force the Government to adopt the Bill. The difficulty of this task has been increased by Mr. Stanger’s [Henry Yorke Stanger, Liberal Party] ill-advised compromise with the opponents of the Bill.”
Suffrage Fallacies: Sir Almroth Wright on “Militant Hysteria”
Anti-suffrage pamphlet of a letter reprinted from The Times, 1912.
Women and the New Franchise Bill (1884)
Slim pamphlet originally printed for private circulation, titled ‘Women and the New Franchise Bill: A Letter to an Ulster Member of Parliament’ by Isabella M. S. Tod, dated March 1884.
Caroline Phillips: Aberdeen Suffragette and Journalist
This publication by Sarah Pederson explores the life and work of Caroline Phillips in the context of the women’s suffrage movement in the north east of Scotland.
Yours in the Cause
Slim booklet titled ‘Yours In The Cause: Suffragettes in Lewisham, Greenwich and Woolwich’ by Iris Dove. The cover image is a sketch made by Sylvia Pankhurst in Holloway Prison, from ‘Votes from Women’ newspaper, 7th January 1909.
The Scottish Women’s Suffrage Movement
Paperback pamphlet titled ‘The Scottish Women’s Suffrage Movement’, compiled by Elspeth King to accompany the Government sponsored “Right to Vote” exhibition organised to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Representation of the People Act.
The Life of Emily Davison: An Outline
Small paperback biography of Emily Wilding Davison, with an In Memoriam leaflet and sutting from The Suffragette.
Postcards and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage
The GWL collections feature a wide variety of books and objects relating to the Suffrage movement but our range of postcards is arguably the most visually arresting. Both for and against women’s suffrage, they have pictures and slogans that are often shocking and grotesque.
Postcard: “I want my Vote!”
Postcard of a mewling kitten against a background of suffragette colours, captioned: “I want my Vote!”