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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