The Women's Victory—and After: Personal Reminiscences, 1911-1918

by Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett

[[7]] In March, 1919, the Council of the N.U.W.S.S. changed the name of our society to the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, and elected Miss Rathbone as its president.

[[8]] The report of the Speaker's conference was dated January 27th, 1917. The clause recommending woman suffrage ran as follows:

VIII. Woman Suffrage.

The conference decided by a majority that some measure of woman suffrage should be conferred. A majority of the conference was also of opinion that if Parliament should decide to accept the principle, the most practical form would be to confer the vote in the terms of the following resolution:

"Any woman on the Local Government Register who has attained a specified age, and the wife of any man who is on that register, if she has attained that age, shall be entitled to be registered and to vote as a parliamentary elector."

Various ages were discussed, of which thirty and thirty-five received most favour. The conference further resolved that if Parliament decides to enfranchise women, a woman of the specified age who is a graduate of any University having parliamentary representation shall be entitled to vote as a University elector.

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INDEX

• Aberconway, Lord, [151]-[152]
• Acland, Mr. F. D., [32]-[48]
• Alberta, province of, returns a woman member of L.A., [119]
• Anderson, Dr. L. G., [97]
• Antisuffrage press, [71]
• Antisuffragist Association, [11], [41], [43]
• —— —— meeting, [70]
• Antisuffragist Association Review, [71]
• Antisuffragists, calumnies of, [26 n.]
• —— rapid conversion of, [117]-[118]
• Archbishops, the, support women's suffrage, [149]
• Asquith, Mr. H. H., rooted hostility to women's suffrage, [1], [11], [12], [13], [14], [27], [44]
• —— becomes Prime Minister, [2]
• —— announces intention of bringing in a Reform Bill, [2], [39], [49]
• —— characteristic blow from, [7], [8]
• —— speech on second reading of Reform Bill, 1912, [27]
• —— Punch's pictures of, [16], [52]
• —— promises regarding women's suffrage, [5], [49]
• —— deputations to, of suffragists, [8], [17], [18], [61]
• —— —— of antisuffragists, [11]
• —— questions addressed to him by N.U.W.S.S., [9]
• —— forms Coalition Government, [124]
• —— compares himself to Orpheus, [15]
• —— —— —— to Stesichorus, [144]
• —— ceases to be Prime Minister, [139]
• —— contrasted with the third Duke of Devonshire, [52], [53]
• —— conversion of, to women's suffrage, [133], [144]
• —— speech on the death of Edith Cavell, [115]
• —— moves women's suffrage resolution in House of Commons, [144]
• —— speech on Women's Clauses of Representation of the People Bill, [144]
• —— Miss Violet (now Lady Bonham Carter), [17]
• —— Mrs., [17]
• Astor, Lady, returned as M.P. for Plymouth, [162]
• Balfour, Mr. A. J., [32], [114], [121]-[122], [124]
• —— of Burleigh, Lord, [148]
• Bath, Mr. Lloyd George speaks on women's suffrage at, 1912, [24]
• Beaconsfield, Earl of, [32], [143].
• See also [Disraeli]
• Blair, Dr. Mary, [100]
• Brailsford, Mr. H. N., [5], [37]
• Bright, Mr. John, [64], [107]
• Bryce, Lord, [148]
• Bull, Sir W., M.P., [138]
• Burnham, Lord, [149]
• Burton, Mr. W., M.P., [73]
• Camborne, [57]
• Campbell-Bannerman, Sir H., [14], [32]
• —— deputation to, [14]
• Canada, women's suffrage granted in, [118], [119]
• Carson, Sir Edward, [74]
• "Cat and Mouse" Act, [65]
• Cave, Sir George, [147]
• Cecil, Lord Robert, [31]-[2], [74], [124], [132]
• Chamberlain, Mr. A., [4]
• Chaplin, Lord, [149]
• Church Congress, [75]
• Churchill, Mr. W., [4], [112]
• Coalition Government formed, 1915, [124]
• "Common Cause" quoted, [7]
• Conciliation Bill and Committee, [4]
• Conciliation Bill, full-dress debate on, in House of Commons, [4]
• —— —— second reading carried, 1910, 1911, [5]
• —— —— defeated, 1912, [20], [23], [29]
• Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association, [80]
• Courtney, Lord, [149]
• Crewe by-election, 1912, [35]
• Curzon, Lord, [11], [114]
• —— Chairman of Antisuffrage League, [114]
• —— speaks in House of Lords, [72], [73], [151], [152]
• Czech woman returned to Diet in Bohemia, 1912, [41]
• Daily Telegraph, [78], [145]
• Davidson, Miss Emily, [66]-[67]
• Davies, Miss Emily, LL.D., [16]
• Deputations to Ministers, [1]-[19], [61]-[64], [131], [143], [146]
• Devonshire, third Duke of, [52], [53]
• Dickinson, the Rt. Hon. Sir W., [45], [138]
• Disraeli, see [Beaconsfield], [32], [143]
• Election-fighting policy, [30]-[38]
• —— —— put in force at by-elections, 1912, [13], [35]
• Electoral Reform Conference, [137]
• —— —— —— report of, [140]-[142]
• Fawcett, Mrs., sends message to societies of N.U.W.S.S., August, 1914, [88]
• Federal amendment carried with S.A. House of Representatives, [150]
• Finlay, Lord, [149]
• Foch, Field-Marshal, quoted, [30]
• Forcible feeding, [65]
• Ford, Miss I. O., [16]
• Franchise difficulties arising from war, [121]-[126]
• Friends, annual epistle of Society of, [76]
• Garvin, Mr., editor of the Observer, [134]
• George, Mr. Lloyd. See [Lloyd George]
• Gilhooley, Mr., M.P., [23]
• Goldstone, Mr., M.P., [138]
• Goschen, Lord, [62]
• Grey, Earl, [149], [157]
• —— Sir Edward (now Viscount of Fallodon), [6], [13], [20], [32], [44]
• Haldane, Lord, [149]
• Halsbury, Lord, [149]
• Hanley by-election, [35]
• Harley, Mrs., [53], [58]-[61]
• —— killed at Monastir, [59]
• Healy, Mr. Timothy, M.P., [23]
• Henderson, Rt. Hon. A., [7], [45], [125], [132]
• Henry, Sir C., M.P., [11]
• Hills, Major, M.P., [165]
• Holmfirth by-election, [35]
• Horticultural Hall, W.L.F. meeting, [13]
• Hutchinson, Dr. Alice, [101]
• Inglis, Dr. Elsie, [95], [101]
• —— life of, by Lady F. Balfour, [95]
• —— her services to Serbia, [100]
• Insurance Act, [69]
• —— —— memorial from Antisuffrage Society, [68]
• International Woman Suffrage Alliance meets at Buda Pest, [83]
• Irish Nationalist vote on suffrage question, [23], [44]
• Ivens, Dr. Frances, of Royaumont, [103]
• Joffre, General, [99]
• Keogh, Surgeon-General Sir Alfred, [97]
• Labour Party support for women's suffrage, [3], [31], [33], [45], [73], [163]
• —— —— members absent from division in 1912, [22]
• Ladies Gallery, removal of grille from, [166]
• Law, Mr. Bonar, [124], [131]
• League of Nations Charter recognizes sex equality, [162]
• Legislation specially affecting women, periods before and after women's suffrage conferred, [169]-[172]
• Lloyd George, the Rt. Hon. D., supports women's suffrage, [6], [10], [11], [13], [32], [132], [139], [145]
• —— —— opposes the Conciliation Bill, [4], [22]
• —— —— praises women's national work, [112]
• Liberal associations' hostility to women's suffrage, [73]
• Liberal Men's Association for Women's Suffrage, [73]
• Lichfield, Bishop of, [75]
• Local Government Register, [147], [167]
• London, Bishop of, [149]
• London School of Medicine for Women, [114]
• Long, Mr. Walter, [114], [115], [136], [138]
• Loreburn, Lord, [149]
• Lyttelton, Hon. Alfred, [45]
• Lytton, [5], [6], [72], [125], [149]
• MacAdams, Miss, returned for L.A. of Alberta, [119]
• Macassey, Sir Lynden, article by, in Quarterly Review, [113]
• Markham, Miss Violet, [11], [117]
• Martindale, Dr. Louisa, [24]
• McKenna, Rt. Hon. R., [24]-[26], [60]
• McLaren, Mr. Walter, M.P., [31]
• McLaren, Mrs. Priscilla, [151]
• Manners, Lord John, [32]
• Maternity benefit paid to husbands, [69]
• Midlothian by-election, 1912, [35]
• Midwives Act, 1902, [157]
• —— —— amended, 1918, [158]
• Militantism, [5], [65], [67], [97]
• Mill, John Stuart, [32], [153]
• Milner, Lord, [149]
• Montagu, Rt. Hon. E., [112]
• Motor Traffic Legislation, [40]-[41]
• Murray, Dr. Flora, [97]
• Nineteenth Century and After, [81]
• Norway, women's franchise in, [143]
• Nurses, registration of, [163], [171]
• N.U.W.S.S., intrigues in House of Commons against, [24], [26]
• —— organization of, [54], [55]
• —— addresses letter to Mr. Asquith on franchise situation, 1916, [127], [8]
• —— recasts election policy, [29], [30]-[38], [43]
• —— changes its name, [155], [160]
• —— enlarges its objects, [161]
• —— indignation of, on fiasco of Government Reform Bill, 1913, [50]-[53]
• —— action on outbreak of war, [86]-[105]
• —— medical units for Russia, [104], [105]
• N.U.W.W. (now National Council of Women), Hull meeting, [76]
• O'Brien, Mr. W., support of women's suffrage, [23]
• Obscene literature, trumped-up charges in House of Commons, [24]-[26]
• Observer, conversion of the, [132]
• Palmer, the Hon. Robert, [81]
• Palmerston, Viscount, [62]
• Parliament Act used against women's suffrage, [22]
• Parliamentary intrigues against women's suffrage, [23], [26], [48]-[49]
• Pilgrimage, the, suggested by Mrs. Harley, [54]-[58]
• "Posts," the Three, [79], [145]
• Pott, Miss Gladys, [97]
• Press support of women's suffrage, rapid growth of, [117], [145]
• Prothero, Mr. R. (now Lord Earle), on Insurance Act, [69]
• Punch quoted, [78]
• Qualifications for Parliamentary Franchise, [122]
• Quarterly Review, [113]
• Queen Mary's interest in women's war work, [92]
• Rackham, Mrs., [61]
• Rathbone, Miss Eleanor, [131], [147], [155]
• Redmond Mr. John, [44]
• Reform Bill, Government, fiasco over, [39]-[53]
• Registration (Parliamentary) neglected during the war, [122]
• Registration of Nurses Act, [163], [171]
• Revelstoke, Lord, on women's labour, [114]
• Robertson, Miss Margaret, [61]
• Royal College of Surgeons, [41]
• Royaumont, hospital at the Abbaye de, [95], [98], [102]
• Royden, Miss A. M., [39], [61], [75]
• Salisbury, the late Marquis of, [32]
• Scott, Mr. MacCallum, M.P., [11], [12], [21], [81]
• Scottish women's hospitals, [95]-[105]
• Selborne, Earl of, services to suffrage in House of Lords, [72], [125], [149], [151]
• —— —— praises women's work in agriculture, [113]
• —— Countess of, [80]
• Serbian tribute to Mrs. Harley, [59]
• Sex Disqualification Removal Act, 1919, [163]-[165]
• Simon, Sir John, M.P., [32], [48], [134]-[135]
• Simpson, Rev. Canon, [57]
• Speaker, the, [49], [50], [137], [138]
• Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform, [137]
• Special Register Bills, [120], [129], [133], [139]
• Sterling, Miss Frances, [16]
• St. Paul's, service in, [57]
• Strachey, Lady, [16]
• Sweden, women's suffrage in, [31], [32]
• The Times' opposition to women's suffrage, [4]
• —— —— —— gradually weakened, [82]
• —— —— supplement on Pacific Coast of U.S.A., [82]
• Trades Union support of women's suffrage, [3]
• Troyes, Scottish women's hospital at, [100]
• Tullibardine, Marquis of (now Duke of Atholl), [24]
• Ulster Unionist Council, [74]
• U.S.A. victories for suffrage, [41], [150]
• —— questionnaire addressed to, [80]-[81]
• Venizelos, M., [163]
• Villiers, the Hon. Charles, [32]
• War, outbreak of, in 1914 and women's work, [86]-[105]
• Ward, Mrs. Humphry, [11], [41]-[43], [71], [76]-[77], [97], [150]-[151]
• Waste in Training Camps, [107]
• Weardale, Lord, [149]
• Weinberg, Dr., in Royaumont, [102]-[103]
• Williams, Mr. Aneurin, M.P., [138]
• Winchester, Bishop of, [156]
• Wollstonecraft, Mary, [154]
• Women's suffrage, a short history of, by Mrs Fawcett, [1]
• —— —— growing support of, by Press, Pulpit, Stage, etc., [77]-[85]
• —— —— victories in House of Commons, [146]-[148]
• —— —— victory in House of Lords, [148]-[153]
• —— Emancipation (Labour Party) Bill, 1919, [163]
• Years before and after suffrage compared, [169]-[172]