Maureen Wright

Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and the Victorian Feminist Movement (eBook, ePUB)

The biography of an insurgent woman

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918) - someone referred to among contemporaries as 'the grey matter in the brain' of the late-Victorian women's movement. A pacifist, humanitarian 'free-thinker', Wolstenholme Elmy was a controversial character and the first woman ever to speak from a public platform on the topic of marital rape. Lauded by Emmeline Pankhurst as 'first' among the infamous militant suffragettes of the Women's Social and Political Union, Wolstenholme Elmy was one of Britain's great feminist pioneers and, in her own words, an 'initiator' of many high-profile campaigns from the nineteenth into the twentieth century. Wright draws on an extensive resource of unpublished correspondence and other sources to produce an enduring portrait that does justice to Wolstenholme Elmy's momentous achievements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847797629
• Artikelnr.: 42371882

Autorenporträt

Maureen Wright works in the School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies, University of Portsmouth.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements List of plates Abbreviations The song of the insurgent women Frontispiece Introduction 1. The making of a feminist: 1833
62 2. Headmistress: The Education Campaign 1863
October 1867 3. The "Parliamentary Watch
Dog": November 1867
October 1874 4. Calvary to resurrection: October 1874
82 5. The 'Great Mole' of the women's movement: 1883
90 6. The Women's Emancipation Union: 1891
July 1899 7. 'The Cold Dark Night is Past': August 1899
May 1906 8. 'At Eventide There Will Be Light': June 1906
March 1918 Conclusion Poem 'New Year's Day', 1900 Cast of characters Select bibliography Index