Representation of the British Suffrage Movement

Focussing on The Times, this monograph uses corpus linguistics to examine how suffrage campaigners'' different ideologies were conflated in the newspaper over a crucial time period for the movement - 1908 to 1914, leading up to the Representation of the People Act in 1918.

Looking particularly at representations of suffrage campaigners'' support of or opposition to military action, Gupta uses a r...