Women's Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement

by Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett

INDEX

• Acton, Lord, on political violence, [66]
• Adult Suffrage Bill, 1909, [70]
• —— 1912, [78]-[82]
• America, Women's Suffrage in, [89]
• Amos, Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon, [22]
• Anderson, Mrs. Garrett, M.D. See [Garrett]
• Anti-Corn Law League, [13]
• Anti-slavery movement in America, [5]
• —— Congress, [13]
• Anti-Suffrage League, the, [46]
• Anti-Suffrage Review, quoted, [47], [52], [77]
• Anti-suffragists, arguments of, [14]
• —— and the Insurance Bill, [57]
• —— and municipal franchise, [50], [51], [52]
• —— letter against Conciliation Bill, [55], [56]
• —— movement in United States, [47]
• —— protest in Nineteenth Century (1889), [46]
• —— tactics of, [33], [34], [35], [51]-[54]
• Ashton, Miss Margaret, [51]
• Asquith, Mr., on facilities for Suffrage Bill, [68], [77], [78]
• —— on position of women under Manhood Suffrage Bill, [78], [80], [81]
• —— on women's political activity, [32]
• —— on Women's Suffrage, [35], [70], [71], [80]
• Australia, Women's Suffrage in, [35], [40], [42], [43], [59], [89]
• Bannerman, Sir H. Campbell, on Women's Suffrage, [69]
• Becker, Miss Lydia, [10], [21]
• Begg, Mr. Faithfull, Women's Suffrage Bill of, [34], [60]
• Birrell, Mr., on Women's Suffrage, [76]
• Blackwell, Dr. Elizabeth, [22]
• Blake, Miss Jex, [22]
• Bodichon, Mrs., [20], [22]
• Borthwick, Sir Algernon, [24], [30]
• Brailsford, Mr. H. N., [73], [85]
• Bright, Mr. Jacob, [23]
• Bright, John, on Parliamentary Reform, [18]
• —— on Women's Suffrage, [19]
• Brougham's Act, Lord, 1850, [9]
• Browning, E. B., Aurora Leigh, [12]
• Bryce, Rt. Hon. James, [34]
• Burke on Dissenters' Petition, [54]
• Butler, Mrs. Josephine, [20], [22]
• California, Women's Suffrage in, [83], [89]
• Canvassing, [29], [30]
• Chorlton v. Lings, case of, [10], [11]
• Churchill, Lord Randolph, [30]
• Churchill, Mr. Winston, on militant tactics, [66], [67]
• —— on Women's Suffrage, [72], [75]
• Clark, Mrs. Helen, [27]
• Cobbe, Frances Power, [20]
• Cobden on Women's Suffrage, [13]
• Conciliation Committee, the, [72], [73], [85]
• Conciliation Bill (Mr. Shackleton's), 1910, [55], [75], [85]
• —— (Sir George Kemp's), 1911, [73]-[76], [77], [85]
• —— Anti-Suffragists' protest against, [55], [56]
• —— petitions and resolutions in favour of, [88]
• Condorcet, [5]
• Contagious Diseases Acts, [22]
• Corrupt Practices Act, [29], [30]
• Creighton, Mrs., [44]
• Crimean War, the, [14]
• Cromer, Lord, on Women's Suffrage, [47]
• Cromwell, on gains by force, [64]
• Davies, Miss Emily, [20], [21], [22]
• Demonstrations, public, [76], [86]
• Despard, Mrs., [63]
• Disraeli, on Women's Suffrage, [13], [24]
• Dissenters' Petition, Burke on, [54], [55]
• Divorce Act, 1857, [15]
• Dublin, Lord Mayor of, [88 n.]
• Electoral Reform Bill, 1912, [78]-[82]
• Elmy, Mrs. Wolstenholme, [22]
• Fawcett, The Rt. Hon. H., [20], [62]
• Finland, Women's Suffrage in, [58], [59], [89]
• Fisher, Mr., on Women's Suffrage, [42]
• Five Mile Act, [54]
• Fry, Mrs. Elizabeth, [6]
• Garrett, Miss Elizabeth, [19], [20], [21]
• Garrison, William Lloyd, [13]
• General Election, 1910, [72]
• Gladstone, Mr., on Divorce Bill, 1857, [15]
• —— on household suffrage, [25]
• —— opposition to Reform Bill, 1884, [27]
• —— on women's political activity, [32]
• —— on Women's Suffrage, [27], [28], [33]
• Godwin, William, [5]
• Goschen, Lord, on agricultural labourers' franchise, [25]
• Grey, Mrs. William, [22]
• Grey, Sir Edward, on Women's Suffrage, [72], [76], [81], [82]
• Guardianship of Children Act, [22]
• Gurney, Miss, [22]
• —— Rt. Hon. Russell, [22], [23]
• Haldane, Lord, on Women's Suffrage, [69], [75], [76]
• Hall, Sir John, [37], [38]
• Harrison, Frederic, on powers of the elector, [53]
• Herschell, Miss Caroline, [12]
• Hill, Miss Davenport, [20]
• Household Suffrage, [25], [73], [74], [81]
• Howard, Mr. G., Adult Suffrage Bill, 1909, [70]
• Iddesleigh, Lord. See [Northcote]
• Indian Mutiny, [14]
• Infants' Custody Act, [12]
• Insurance Bill, the, [57]
• Isle of Man, Women's Suffrage in, [25]
• James, Lord, on Corrupt Practices Act, [29], [30]
• —— on Women's Suffrage, [49], [50]
• Jameson, Mrs., [12]
• Kemp, Sir George, Conciliation Bill (1911) introduced by, [24], [77], [85]
• Knight, Anne, [13]
• Labouchere, Mr., attitude to Suffrage Bills, [34]
• Langton, Lady Anna Gore, [20]
• Leavitt, Mrs., [37]
• Lees, Mrs., [51]
• Lloyd George, Mr., on Women's Suffrage, [69], [75], [81]
• Local Government Qualification of Women's Act, 1907, [49], [50]
• Lyne, Sir William, on Women's Suffrage, [42]
• Lytton, Earl of, [7 n.], [73], [78], [85]
• MacDonald, Mr. Ramsay, [80], [81]
• M'Laren, Mrs. Duncan, [22]
• M'Laren, Mr. Walter, [26]
• Manchester Guardian, The, on Women's Suffrage, [79]
• Manhood Suffrage Bill, 1912, [78]-[82]
• Markham, Miss Violet, [50], [51]
• Married Women's Property Act, [22], [23]
• Martineau, Harriet, [20]
• Medical profession opened to women, [22]
• Militant Societies, the, [58]
• —— election policy of, [67]
• Mill, James, on Women's Suffrage, [6], [7], [15]
• Mill, John Stuart, on enfranchisement of women, [16], [17], [19]
• —— and Women's Parliamentary Petition, [20]
• —— Women's Suffrage Amendment Bill, [19], [20], [23]
• Mill, Mrs. John Stuart, on Enfranchisement of Women, [16], [17]
• Morley, Viscount, [26], [27], [62]
• Mott, Lucretia, [14]
• Müller, Mrs., [37]
• Municipal Corporation Act, 1835, [9]
• Municipal suffrage, [9], [20], [48]
• —— Anti-Suffragist support of, [47]
• National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, [21], [22], [62], [81], [85]
• —— election policy, of [67]
• —— protests against militant tactics, [63]
• National Women's Liberal Association, [31]
• New Zealand, Women's Suffrage in, [35], [36], [37], [89]
• —— electoral roll of, [41]
• Nightingale, Miss Florence, [14], [20]
• Northcote, Sir Stafford, [24]
• Norton, Hon. Mrs., [11], [12]
• Norway, Women's Suffrage in, [51], [59], [89]
• Pankhurst, Dr., [10]
• Pankhurst, Mrs. and Miss, [60]
• People's Suffrage Federation, [78], [87]
• Peterloo Massacre, the, [7]
• Petitions from Town Councils, [55], [88]
• Pochin, Mrs., [22]
• Poor Law Guardians, qualifications of, [50]
• Primrose League, the, [5], [30]
• Public meetings and demonstrations, [76], [86]
• Rathbone, Miss Eleanor, [51]
• Reeves, W. P., on Women's Suffrage, [38]
• Reform Acts, exclusion of females, [9]
• Reform Bill, 1832 and 1867, [6], [7], [9]
• —— 1884, [27]-[29]
• —— 1912, [78]-[82]
• Rollit, Sir A., Women's Suffrage Bill (1892) introduced by, [33], [34]
• Royal Astronomical Society, women members of, [12]
• Runciman, Mr., on Women's Suffrage, [76]
• School Boards, women members of, [20], [21]
• Seddon, Mr. Richard, [37]
• Serjeant Talfourd's Act, 1839, [12]
• Shackleton, Mr., Conciliation Bill, 1910, [55], [75], [85]
• Shaw, Dr. Anna, [82]
• Shaw, Mrs. Bernard, on Reform Suffrage Bill, 1912, [79]
• Sheffield Female Political Association, [13]
• Sherriff, Miss, [22]
• Sidgwick, Henry, [22]
• Smith, Mr. Goldwin, [35], [39]
• Smith, Sydney, on education for women, [6]
• Societies, Suffrage, [87]
• South African War, the, [58], [59], [60]
• Somerville, Mrs., [12], [20]
• Stanfield, Sir James, [22]
• Stanger, Mr., Women's Suffrage Bill (1908) introduced by, [70]
• Stanhope, Mrs. Spencer, quoted, [9]
• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, [14]
• Stevenson, Miss Flora, [21]
• Stuart, Mr. James, [22]
• Suffrage Societies, [85], [87]
• Swanwick, Miss, [20]
• Taylor, Mrs. Peter, [20]
• Test Act, the, [54]
• Thackeray, in Esmond, on domestic tyranny, [12]
• Times, The, on Women's Suffrage, [77]
• Town Councils, petitions from, [85], [88]
• Town and County Councils Qualification Bill, [50], [51]
• Trades Union Congress (Aberdeen) and Women's Suffrage, [29]
• Twain, Mark, on Women's Suffrage, [65]
• United States, Anti-suffrage movement in, [47]
• —— Women's Suffrage in, [14], [35], [89]
• University education opened to women, [22]
• Unwin, Mrs. Cobden, [27]
• Voters' Petition, the, 1910, [72]
• Walpole, Horace, on Mary Wollstonecraft, [5]
• Ward, Mrs. Humphry, on Women's Suffrage, [35], [44], [50], [51]
• —— on Conciliation Bill, 1911, [74]
• —— on representation in local government, [48], [49]
• —— political activity of, [56]
• Webb, Mrs. Sidney, [44]
• Wheeler, Mrs., on Women's Suffrage, [7]
• Wollstonecraft, Mary, [6], [6]
• Women, in local government, [49]
• —— as members of School Boards, [21]
• —— as municipal voters, [9], [20]
• —— as Poor Law Guardians, [50]
• —— political activity of, [13], [30], [31], [32], [56], [57]
• Women's Freedom League, [63]
• Women's Liberal Federation, [30], [31], [78]
• —— and Conciliation Bill, [74]
• Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, U.S.A., [14]
• Women's Social and Political Union, [60]
• —— election policy of, [67]
• Women's Suffrage, arguments against, [34]
• —— beginnings of, [5]
• Women's Suffrage, Conservative objections to, [73]
• —— not a party question, [23], [73], [82]
• —— —— support of, [24]
• —— historical aspect of, [8]
• —— in Greater Britain, [34]
• —— in Isle of Man, [25]
• —— in other countries, [89]
• —— in United States, [35], [47], [89]
• —— Liberal objections to, [73]
• —— —— support of, [23]
• —— pioneers of, [5], [10], [13], [14], [16], [20], [21], [22]
• —— political aspect of, [15]
• —— position in 1880-1884, [25]-[34]
• —— position under Reform Bill, 1912, [78]-[82]
• —— recent developments, [69]
• —— resolutions and petitions in favour of, [19], [26], [84], [88]
• —— Societies, [21], [22], [85], [87]
• —— summary of movement, [84]
• Women's Suffrage Amendment (J. S. Mill's), 1867, [23]
• Women's Suffrage Amendment Bill (Mr. Woodall's), 1884, [23], [28], [29]
• Women's Suffrage Bill, 1870 (Mr. Jacob Bright's), [23]
• —— 1892 (Sir A. Rollit's), [33]
• —— 1897 (Mr. F. Begg's), [34], [60]
• —— 1908 (Mr. Stanger's), [70]
• —— 1910 (Mr. Shackleton's), [55], [75], [85]
• —— 1911 (Sir G. Kemp's), [77], [85]. See also Summary, p. [84]
• Woodall, Mr., Suffrage Amendment Bill (1884) introduced by, [28], [29]
• Wyoming, Women's Suffrage in, [35], [89]

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