Jill Liddington

Vanishing for the vote (eBook, ePUB)

Suffrage, citizenship and the battle for the census

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Produktbeschreibung

Investigates the boycott of the 1911 census by Suffragettes

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847798886
• Artikelnr.: 44054243

Autorenporträt

Jill Liddington is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Leeds

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: Prelude - people and their politics 1. Charlotte Despard and John
Burns, the Colossus of Battersea 2. Muriel Matters goes vanning it with
Asquith: campaigning cross country 3. Propaganda culture: Clemence and
Laurence Housman 4. Parallel politics: Lloyd George plus Midlands
suffragettes PART TWO: Narrative - October 1909 to April 1911 5. Plotting
across central London: census and tax resistance 6. The battle for John
Burns' Battersea revisited 7. The Census Bill and suffragette boycott plan
8. Lloyd George goes a-wooing vs Burns' 'Vixens in Velvet' 9. The King's
Speech: Jessie Stephenson parachutes into Manchester 10. Battleground for
democracy: census versus women's citizenship PART THREE: Census night -
places and spaces 11. Emily Wilding Davison's Westminster - and beyond 12.
The Nevinsons' Hampstead - and central London entertainments 13. Laurence
Housman's Kensingon, with Clemence in Dorset 14. Annie Kenney's Bristol and
Mary Blathwayt's Bath 15. Jessie Stephenson's Manchester, Hannah Mitchell's
Oldham Road 16. English journey: sweeping back down from Teesside to Thames
PART FOUR: The Census and beyond 17. After census night: Clemence's
resistance, Asquith's betrayal 18. Telling the story: suffrage and census
historiographies 19. Sources and their analysis: Vanishing for the Vote?
GAZETTEER OF CAMPAIGNERS jointly compiled with Elizabeth Crawford. Select
bibliography References: endnotes Index