Sandra Stanley Holton: 2 books
Suffrage Days
Stories from the Women's Suffrage Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
This is a history of the suffrage movement in Britain from the beginnings of the first sustained campaign in the 1860s to the winning of the vote for women in 1918. The book focuses on a number of figures whose role in this agitation has been ignored or neglected. These include the free-thinker Elizabeth...
Quaker Women
Personal Life, Memory and Radicalism in the Lives of Women Friends, 1780–1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
One nineteenth-century commentator noted the ‘public’ character of Quaker women as signalling a new era in female history. This study examines such claims through the story of middle-class women Friends from among the kinship circle created by the marriage in 1839 of Elizabeth Priestman and the...