This is a collection of pamphlets collected by Ruth Cavendish-Bentinck, socialist and suffragist, which have been bound into volumes. The collection contains many pamphlets relating to the women's suffrage campaign from the 1860s to approximately 1900. Other topics are also covered, such as Octavia Hill and her work with the poor (volume 1), the Marriage Law Reform Association (volume 22), The Women's Institute (the club, not the National Federation of Women's Institutes, volume 23) and women's suffrage in the United States (volume 35).

We are grateful to the Friends of The Women's Library for assisting with the digitisation of this collection.

Part 4 of looseleaf volume:

• Report of the Executive Committee presented at the annual general meeting, held in the Westminster Town Hall, July 21st, 1899, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. Society for Women's Suffrage. Central and East of England
• Opinions of leaders of religious thought on women's suffrage, National Society for Women's Suffrage. Central Committee

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Part 3 of looseleaf volume:

• Occasional paper, National Society for Women's Suffrage. June 1st 1891
• Occasional paper, National Society for Women's Suffrage, 25th March 1892
• Occasional paper 15th March 1894, National Society for Women's Suffrage
• Speeches at a great meeting in support of the political enfranchisement of women held at Queen's Hall, Langham Place on June 29th, 1899, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies

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Part 2 of looseleaf volume:

• Annual report 1896, National Society for Women's Suffrage. Central Committee
• Report of the Executive Committee presented at the annual general meeting held in the Westminster Town Hall, July 15th, 1897, National Society for Women's Suffrage. Central Committee
• Report of the Executive Committee presented at the annual general meeting held in the Westminster Town Hall, July 15th, 1898, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. Society for Women's Suffrage. Central and East of England Committee

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Part 1 of looseleaf volume:

• Women's Suffrage Associate Scheme, Englishwoman's Review (Apr. 1898)
• Annual report 1898, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. Central and East of England Society for Women's Suffrage
• Sessional notes (Feb. 1899), National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
• Annual report of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage (1892), Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage (duplicates)
• Women's Suffrage extracts. No.1. from "Liberty, equality, Fraternity", 1874, The Late Miss Lydia E. Becker (duplicates)
• Report of the Executive Committee presented at the annual general meeting held in the Westminster Town Hall, July 11th 1893, National Society for Women's Suffrage. Central Committee
• Report of the Executive Committee presented at the annual general meeting held in the Westminster Town Hall, July 6th, 1894, National Society for Women's Suffrage. Central Committee

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Part 4 of looseleaf volume:

• Present aspect of women's suffrage considered, by Arabella Shore
• Women's suffrage: why should women demand the franchise
• Women's suffrage associate scheme
• Women's suffrage in the light of the second reading of 1897

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Part 3 of looseleaf volume:

• Political organisations and women's suffrage
• Speeches to resolution I delivered at the National Conference of delegates of Women's Suffrage Societies in Great Britain and Ireland on October 16, 1896
• The plea of disenfranchised women
• The debate in the House of Commons on women's suffrage, 3rd February 1897
• Women's suffrage in the Queen's year, by Mrs Carmichael Stopes
• Text of bill for extending the parliamentary franchise to women
• Some electoral facts: one household in every eight without a vote
• From the Bishop of Southwell and Lady Laura Ridding
• The maps from "Parliamentary echoes: extracts from speeches on women's suffrage in the House of Commons" in Part 2

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Part 2 of looseleaf volume:

• Shall we work for candidates who are against women's suffrage? Union of Practical Suffragists within the Women's Liberal Federation, Leaflet No.1 by Mrs Jacob Bright
• Women and Votes, Union of Practical Suffragists within the Women's Liberal Federation, Leaflet No.II by Miss Priestman
• Union of Practical Suffragists within the Women's Liberal Federation, Leaflet No.III by Mrs Leeds
• Loyalty is the best policy, Union of Practical Suffragists within the Women's Liberal Federation, Leaflet No.V by Mrs Walter Grove
• Parliamentary echoes: extracts from speeches on women's suffrage in the House of Commons
• Opinions of leaders of religious thought on women's suffrage

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Part 1 of looseleaf volume:

• Why women want the suffrage, M.Taylor
• Professor F. D. Maurice on women's suffrage
• Herbert Spencer on women's suffrage
• The Lord Chief Justice Coleridge on women's suffrage
• Professor Lindsay, D.D. on women's suffrage
• The renaissance of women, Isabel Somerset
• Latest intelligence from the planet Venus
• The citizenship of women socially considered, by Louisa Shore
• To the delegates of the Women's Liberal Federation, M.Taylor

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Part 3 of looseleaf volume:

• Twentieth annual report of the Central National Society for Women's Suffrage
• Twenty first annual report of the Central National Society for Women's Suffrage
• Position of women under the Local Government Act, 1894
• Meeting in St. James's Hall on November 10th 1893

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Part 2 of looseleaf volume:

• Speech of John Stuart Mill on the admission of women to the electoral franchise
• Speech of the late John Stuart Mill at the great meeting in favour of women's suffrage held in the Music Hall, Edinburgh, January 12th, 1871
• The enfranchisement of women: an ancient right, a modern need, paper read by Mrs McIlquham to the Bedminster (Bristol) Champion Habitation of the Primrose League
• The Dean of Winchester on woman's suffrage
• Reasons why women should have the franchise and the objections to it, Women's Emancipation Union
• The enfranchisement of women, by J.V. Jones
• How men are interested in women's questions
• The sphere of women
• Home and politics: an address delivered at Toynbee Hall and elsewhere, by Mrs Henry Fawcett
• Paper read at the Bristol meeting of the Central Conference of Women Workers among women and children, by Mrs Henry Fawcett
• The Emancipation of Women (No.3): women's suffrage
• The temperance question and women's suffrage

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Part 1 of looseleaf volume:

• The case of the Helots, by Elizabeth Martin
• A reply to Mr Gladstone's letter on women suffrage addressed to him by a member of the Women's Liberal Federation
• A blast and a counterblast: the emancipation of women and its probable consequences, by Y. Gwir
• The bitter cry of the voteless toilers (with special reference to the seamstresses of East London), by W. H. Wilkins
• Woman and natural selection
• Why women want the suffrage
• The census and women's suffrage, by Laura E. Morgan-Brown
• Reasons why women want the vote, by Mrs Morgan-Browne

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Part 3 of looseleaf volume:

• Report of the Executive Committee presented at the Annual General Meeting held in the Westminster Town Hall, May 31st 1892
• Women's suffrage candidates for the General Election of 1892, second and enlarged edition
• Speech by R.C. Jebb M.P., at the Annual Meeting of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage, May 31st 1892
• Address of thanks, May 1892
• Occasional paper, 20th March 1893
• The work of the Central Committee: A sketch
• Report of the Executive Committee presented at the Annual General Meeting held in the Westminster Town Hall, July 11th 1893

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Part 2 of looseleaf volume:

• Occasional paper, 1891
• Report of the Executive Committee presented at the Annual General Meeting held in the Westminster Town Hall, July 14th 1891
• Occasional paper, 25th March 1892
• A reply to the letter of Mr. Samuel Smith on Women's Suffrage, by Mrs Fawcett, 1892
• Occasional paper, May 1892

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