Table of Contents:
  • From 'surplus woman' to independent person : Elizabeth Wolstenholme and the early women's movement
  • 'The revolt of the women' : sexual subjection and sexual solidarity
  • A 'strange, erratic genius' : Jessie Craigen, working suffragist
  • 'The grandest victory' : married women and the franchise
  • Among the 'insurgent women' : Hannah Mitchell, socialist and suffragist
  • 'A merry, militant saint' : Mary Gawthorpe and the argument of the stone
  • Women's suffrage among the bohemians : Laurence Housman joins the movement
  • 'On the horns of a dilemma' : Alice Clark, liberal Quaker and democratic suffragist
  • Men, women's suffrage and sexual radicalism, 1912-14
  • Women's suffrage and the First World War
  • Last words : women's suffragists and women's history after the vote.