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1. Suffrage and Power: the Women's Movement 1918-1929 (1997), P Notes PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION 1. Suffrage and Power: The Women's Movement 1918-1929 (1997), p. 226. WOMEN AND THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT BEFORE 1914 1. See Pat Thane, 'Late Victorian Women', in T. R. Gourvish and A. O'Day (eds), Later Victorian Britain (1988), p. 181. 2. Susan Kingsley Kent, Sex and Suffrage in Britain 1860-1914 (1987). 3. Joan Perkin, Women and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century England (1989); Pat 1alland, Women, Marriage and Politics 1890-1914 (1986). 4. Elizabeth Roberts, A Woman's Place: an Oral History of Working-class Women 1890-1940 (1984). 5. F. Prochaska, 'A Mother's Country: Mothers' Meetings and Family Welfare in Britain, 1850-1950', History, 74, 242 (1989); Brian Harrison, 'For Church, Queen and Family: the Girls' Friendly Society 1874-1920', Past and Present, 61 (1973); Martin Pugh, The Tories and the People 1880-1935 (1985). 6. Anna Davin, 'Imperialism and Motherhood', History Workshop Journal, 5 (1978). 7. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, 'Female Suffrage: a Reply', The Nineteenth Century (July, 1889). 8. Patricia Hollis, Ladies Elect: Women in English Local Government, 1865- 1914 (1987). 9. Andrew Rosen, Rise Up Women! (1974). 10. Jill Liddington and Jill Norris, One Hand Tied Behind Us (1978). 11. Leslie P. Hume, The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (1982); Sandra Holton, Feminism and Democracy (1986); Martin Pugh, Women's Sulfrage in Britain 1867-1928 (1980), and 'Labour and Women's Suffrage', in K. D. Brown (ed.), The First Labour Party 1906-14 (1985). 12. Jill Liddington, The Life and Times of a Respectable Rebel: Selina Cooper 1864-1946 (1984); June Hannam, Isabella Ford (1989). 13. Holton, Feminism and Democracy, pp. 124-5. 2 THE IMPACT OF THE GREAT WAR 1. S. Andreski, Military Organisation and Society (1954); R. Titmuss, Essays on the Welfare State (1958); A. Marwick, The Deluge (1967). 2. House of Commons (HC) Debates, 7 Aug. 1914, c.2158; Home Office letter, 21 Aug. 1914, Suffragette Fellowship paper Z6067. 3. E. Pankhurst, circular letter, 13 Aug. 1914. 4. Fawcett to Miss E. Atkinson, undated (1915), Fawcett Library Autograph Collection. 354 Notes 355 5. Common Cause, VI, no. 282, 4 Sept. 1914. 6. Imperial War Museum, EMP 491212. 7. Guildhall speech, Plymouth, 17 Nov. 1914. 8. Imperial War Museum, EMP 13/2, E. Pankhurst circular, 9 July 1915; Daily Chronicle, 19 July 1915; Weekly Dispatch, 24 Apr. 1921. 9. Jill Liddington, The Long Road to Greenham: Feminism and Anti­ Militarism in Britain since 1820 (1989), pp. 96-102. 10. WILAnnual Report, 1918-19. 11. Julia Bush. Behind the Lines: East London Labour 1914-18 (1984), pp. 72-3, 149-50; P. Romeiro, E. Sylvia Pankhurst (1987), pp. 105, 118-20. 12. Chronicle of Youth: Vera Brittain's War Diary 1913-17, ed. A. Bishop (198 1), pp. 84, 102. 13. Fawcett to Miss E. Atkinson, 19 Feb. 1916, Fawcett Library Autograph Collection. 14. Jill Liddington, The Life and Times of a Respectable Rebel (1984), pp. 264-5. 15. Cecil to Mrs Fawcett, 5 Aug. 1914, Fawcett Library Autograph Collection. 16. WFL, executive minutes, 29 Nov. 1917. 17. Anti-Suffrage Review, 77 (Mar. 1915). 18. Handbookfor Housewives, National Food Economy League (1917). 19. J. M. Winter, The Great War and the British People (1985), pp. 103-53 .. 20. Imperial War Museum, LAND 8/6,8/10,8/30. Inez Jenkins, The History of the Women's Institute Movement of England and Wales (1953), pp. 1-31. 21. M. G. Fawcett, What I Remember (1925), p. 218. 22. Liddington, Respectable Rebel, p. 275. 23. Imperial War Museum, WEL 2/5. 24. Women's Industrial News, XVIII, 67 (Oct. 1914),298. 25. Imperial War Museum, EMP 2/1; 22/39,53,55. 26. Imperial War Museum, EMP 55/6. 27. Board of Trade Report on 'The Increase in Employment of Women During the War: Individual Industries' (1917), IWM, EMP 25/10. 28. Report of the War Cabinet Committee on Women in Industry, Cd. 135, HMSO (1919), p. 107. 29. Daily Mail, 29 Oct. 1917. 30. East Anglian Daily Times, 17 Mar. 1916, see Imperial War Museum, LAND 2/3. 31. Binningham Post, 25 Apr. 1915. 32. Western Daily Mercury, 22 May 1915; East Anglian Daily Times, 17 Mar. 1916; Montgomeryshire County Times, 5 Aug. 1916. 33. Summary of the Work of the Women's War Agricultural Committees, HMSO (1916). 34. Home Office Report, 'Substitution of Women in Non-Munitions Factories During the War', HMSO (1919). 35. Report on the Increased Employment of Women During the War (1916), p. 11, Imperial War Museum, EMP 2512. 36. Imperial War Museum, EMP 2212/19. 37. Dundee Advertiser, 31 Aug. 1917. 38. Harold L. Smith, 'The issue of "equal pay for equal work" in Great Britain, 1914-19', Societas, VIII, 1 (1978),40-3. 356 Women and the Women's Movement in Britain 39. Ibid. p. 45. 40. 'Final Report of the Civil War Workers' Committee on Substitute Labour', Cd. 9228 (1918). 41. 'The Position of Women After the War', SJCIWO, n.d., p. 13, Imperial War Museum, EMP 2812. 42. 'Report of a Conference on the Position of Women in Industry After the War' , Mar. 1918, Imperial War Museum, EMP 28/1. 43. Anne Summers, Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses (1988). 44. Lady Frances Balfour, Dr. Elsie Inglis (1920), p. 144. 45. Blackpool Herald, 12 Mar. 1915. 46. National Service press cuttings, Imperial War Museum, EMP 4912127. 47. Daily Express, 10 June 1918. 48. Time and Tide, 4 June 1920. 49. Lady Londonderry, Retrospect (1938), pp. 127-8. 50. Church Family News, 26 May 1915. 51. Gail Braybon and Penny Summerfield, Out of the Cage (1987), pp. 109-10. 52. 'Women's Patrol Committee', NUWW pamphlet, Oct. 1917. 53. Weekly Dispatch, 15 July 1917. 54. See Martin Pugh, Electoral Reform in War and Peace 1906--18 (1978), pp.67-9. 55. W. H. Dickinson to Miss Barry (copy), 20 Jan. 1943, Dickinson Papers (GLC Record Office); HC Debates, 22 May 1917, c. 2213-14. 56. S. S. Holton, Feminism and Democracy (1986), pp. 134-50. 57. Asquith to M. G. Fawcett, 7 May 1916, Fawcett Library Autograph Collection. 58. Dated 13 Dec. 1915, Labour Party Archives, WNC 29/5. 59. Liddington, Respectable Rebel, p. 271. 60. Dickinson to M. G. Fawcett, 19 Jan. 1917, Fawcett Library Autograph Collection. 61. CAB 24/6/1,13 Feb. 1917. 62. 'The 1917 Deputation to Lloyd George', Suffragette Fellowship papers Z6065. 63. Cicely Hamilton, Life Errant (1935), p. 67; H. M. Swanwick, The War and Its Effects on Women (1918), p. 24; Elizabeth Robins, Ancilla's Share (1924), xxxvi. 64. C. Hartley, Motherhood and the Relationship of the Sexes (1917), pp. 14-15. 65. HC Debates, 16 Aug. 1916, c. 1959-60; E. S. Pankhurst, The Suffragette Movement (1931), p. 601. 66. Anne Summers, Angels and Citizens, pp. 273, 287-8. 67. Quoted in Summers, Angels and Citizens, p. 287. 68. HC Debates, 29 Feb. 1924, c. 872. 69. W. Long to H. A. Morton (copy), 14 June 1917, Long Papers; CAB 24/61 1,13 Feb. 1917. 70. Letters From Lord Oxford to a Friend (1933), pp. 125-6. 71. A Memorandum on Franchise Reform, n.d., Grey Papers, 236/3. Notes 357 3 STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT INTHE 1920s 1. Ray Strachey, The Cause (1928), p. 368. 2. Britannia, 30 Nov. 1917. 3. Lloyd George to A. Bonar Law, 21 Nov. 1918 (copy), Lloyd George papers F/30/2I55. 4. The Labour Woman, no. 21 (Jan. 1918), p. 67. 5. Teresa Lucas, 'The Pankimrst Sisters After 1914', Sheffield University PhD thesis, unpublished (1988), p. 155. 6. Ibid. 7. WFL, Political and Militant Sub-Committee, minute books, 1917-35, Fawcett Library, Box 56. 8. Lady Rhondda, This Was My World (1933), pp. 135-6, 151-3. 9. TIme and TIde, 9 July 1920. 10. Ibid., 18 May 1923, 16 May 1924. 11. Good Housekeeping, Mar. 1957, p. 162. 12. Mary Grieve, Millions Made My Story (1964), p. 143. 13. Lady Rhondda, This Was My World (1933), p. 299. 14. Glasgow Society for Women's Suffrage, executive minutes, 21 Feb. 1921. 15. TIme and TIde, 21 Jan. 192 1. 16. Ibid., 8 Nov. 1922, 14 Dec. 1923. 17. Jill Liddington, The Life and TImes of a Respectable Rebel (1984), pp. 310-11. 18. NUSEC, executive minutes, 22 Nov. 1927. 19. Ibid., 4 Mar. 1920. 20. The Woman's Leader, 1 Apr. 1920. 21. NUSEC, executive minutes, 11 Jan. 1923; Glasgow Society for Women's Suffrage, executive minutes, 27 Mar. 1929. 22. NUSEC, executive minutes, 27 Nov. 1924. 23. Glasgow Society for Women's Suffrage, executive minutes, 15 Apr. 1929. 24. The Woman's Leader, 11 Nov. 1921. 25. Liddington, Respectable Rebel, pp. 299-300. 26. The Woman's Leader, 5 Nov. 1920, 12 Nov. 1920, 1 July 1921. 27. Women's Local Representation Joint Committee (Glasgow), minutes, 17 Mar. 1919,25 Oct. 1919. 28. Jonathan Billings, 'The First Lady Members on the Councils of the Newcastle and Gateshead Corporations', Newcastle University dissertation (1985), pp. 10-15. 29. Cambridge Women's Citizens' Association, minutes, 17 Aug. 1925, 9 Oct. 1925. 30. The Woman's Leader, 10 Nov. 1922. 31. Conservative Party, Annual Conference Report, Nov. 1917. 32. Martin Pugh, The Tories and the People, 1880-1935 (1985), pp. 56-62. 33. Women's Unionist Organisation, Annual Conference Report, Apr. 192 1. 34. Women's Labour League, Conference Report, Jan. 1918. 35. Ibid., Jan. 1918, pp. 43-46. 36. Ibid., June 1919, p. 80. 358 Women and the Women's Movement in Britain 37. The Woman's Leader, 10 June 1921, p.
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