Assembling a full and comprehensive collection of material which
illustrates all aspects of the emergent women s movement during the
years 1850-1900, this fascinating book will prove invaluable to
students of nineteenth century social history and women's studies,
to those studying the Victorian novel and to sociologists.
Women s pamphlets and speeches, parliamentary debates and
popular journalism, letters and memoirs, royal commissions and the
leading reviews, are all used to document the conflicting images of
women: surplus women and the issue of emigration; women s work and
male hostility to it; the opening of education by Emily Davies; the
claim to equity at law; the attack on the sexual double standard,
led by Josephine Butler; women s public service from philanthropy
exemplified in a Mary Carpenter or Louisa Twining or Octavia Hill
to local government; and finally women s entry into politics led by
Lydia Becker.
The contents range from Caroline Norton on her battle for child
custody in the 1830s to Annie Besant s inspiration of the
match-girl s strike in 1888, and from W. T. Stead on child
prostitution to Mrs Humphrey War s Appeal against female suffrage
in 1889.
The book was originally published in 1979.
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