Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain, 1866-1928

This book tells the story of the women''s suffrage movement in Britain beginning with John Stuart Mill''s proposal of a women''s suffrage amendment to a reform bill. It ends with the victory of 1928, concluding more than 50 years of repeated defeats, anti-suffragism, militancy, imprisonment, hunger strikes and forcible feeding, and multiple internal splits and their only partial victory of 1918. I...