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 3 of looseleaf volume:

• The National Society for Women's Suffrage Central Committee
• A word to women-householders
• Opinions of eminent statesmen on women's suffrage
• Opinions of eminent persons on women's suffrage. Leaflet no.2.
• Opinions of Members of Parliament on women's suffrage. Leaflet no.3
• Opinions of eminent persons on women's suffrage. Leaflet no.4.
• Fifth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage
• Speech of Jacob Bright, Esq., M.P. Chairman delivered at the fifth Annual meeting of the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage
• Mrs. Fawcett on women's suffrage: speech delivered in the Town Hall Birmingham, 1872
• Miss E.M. Sturge on women's suffrage: speech delivered in the Town Hall Birmingham, 1872
• Report of the Bath Branch of the National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1872

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• Housman, Laurence; Bawling brotherhood
• Masefield, John; My faith in woman suffrage
• Majestic unity of woman
• Mahler, E and Rathbone, E.F.; Payment of seamen: the present system: how the wives suffer
• Australia's advice
• Kidd, Ronald, H.; For freedoms cause: an appeal to working men
• Clayton, Joseph; Militant methods in history
• Zangwill, Israel; Sword and the spirit
• Pethick Lawrence, F.W.; Women's votes and wages

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Part 2 of looseleaf volume:

• Budd, J.T.; Woman's place and power
• Broughton-Thompson, C.; Christ and the woman's movement

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Part 1 of looseleaf volume:

• Pember Reeves [et al]; Summary of eight papers and discussions upon the disabilities of mothers as workers
• Holmes, Marion; Elizabeth Fry: a cameo life-sketch
• Holmes, Marion; Florence Nightingale: a cameo life-sketch
• Holmes, Marion; Josephine Butler: a cameo life-sketch
• Wright, W.J. Payling; Regulated vice and the traffic in women
• Holmes, Marion; Frances Mary Buss: a cameo life-sketch
• Holmes, Marion; Lydia Becker: a cameo life-sketch

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Part 2 of looseleaf volume:

• Smith, Julia; Something about the catacombs
• Institution of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine
• Woman's work
• First sermon
• Lessons on the prevention of the spread of fevers

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Description: Consisting of 21 pamphlets published by the Ladies' Sanitary Association
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Description: Consisting of 21 pamphlets published by the Ladies' Sanitary Association
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Part 1 of looseleaf volume:

• Prothero; Rowland E.; Women's suffrage
• Nevinson, Henry W.; Women's vote and men
• Radicals and reform
• Emancipation of womanhood
• Boulting, William; Old doctor's view of the women's movement
• What anti-suffragist men really think about women
• Colonial statesmen and votes for women
• Murray, Eunice, G.; Prejudices old and new
• Liberal cant
• F.W. Pethick Lawrence: a biographical sketch
• Brailsford, H.N.; Conciliation Bill: an explanation and defence
• Snowden, Philip; In defence of the Conciliation Bill
• Duval, Victor D; Why I went to prison
• Duval, Victor D; An appeal to men

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Part 2 of looseleaf volume:

• Pember Reeves, Maud; Family life on a pound a week
• Harben, Henry; Endowment of motherhood
• Royden, Maude; Votes and wages
• Blagg, Helen and Wilson, Charlotte; Women and prisons
• Blease, W. Lyon; Concerning the status of political prisoners
• Charnwood, Lord; Legislation for the protection of women
• Macmillan, Chrystal; Struggle for political liberty
• Robins, Elizabeth; Under his roof
• Report of the Scottish women graduates appeal in the House of Lords

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Part 2 of looseleaf volume:

• Pochin, Mrs. Henry Davis; Right of women to exercise the elective franchise
• Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage; Sixth Annual Report 1874

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Part 1 of looseleaf volume:
Women's Suffrage Pamphlets 1867-1882:

• Enfranchisement of women by Mrs Stuart Mill, 1868
• The right of women to exercise the elective franchise by Mrs Henry Davis Pochin, 1873
• Extracts from Mr Mill's subjection of women
• Speech of John Stuart Mill, M.P. on the admission of women to the electoral franchise, 1867
• The franchise for women, 1868
• Reasons for and against the enfranchisement of women by Mrs Bodichon
• Women and politics by the Rev.Canon Kingsley, 1869
• Is the exercise of the suffrage unfeminine by Mrs William Grey, 1870
• Report of a meeting of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1870

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Part 1 of looseleaf volume:
Women's Suffrage Publications 1867-1878 Vol 1:

• First Annual report: Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage 1868
• National Society for Women's Suffrage: London, Edinburgh, Dublin
• First Report: Edinburgh Branch of the National Society for Women's Suffrage 1868
• Second Annual report: Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage 1869
• Public meeting in Edinburgh: Edinburgh Branch of the National Society for Women's Suffrage 1870
• Second Annual report: Birmingham Society for Women's Suffrage 1869-70
• Third Annual report: Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage 1870
• Great meeting in Edinburgh: Edinburgh Branch of the National Society for Women's Suffrage 1871
• Third Annual report: Birmingham Society for Women's Suffrage 1870-71
• Report: Bristol and West of England Society for Women's Suffrage 1871

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Part 3 of looseleaf volume:
Women's Suffrage Publications 1867-1878 Vol 1:

• Sixth Annual report: Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage 1873
• Sixth Annual report: Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage 1874
• Fifth Annual report: Birmingham Society for Women's Suffrage 1873-74
• Report: Bristol and West of England Society for Women's Suffrage 1874
• Annual report: National Society for Women's Suffrage 1874
• Seventh Annual report: Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage 1874
• Seventh Annual report: Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage 1875

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Part 4 of looseleaf volume:
Women's Suffrage Publications 1867-1878 Vol 1:

• Report: Bristol and West of England Society for Women's Suffrage 1875
• Sixth Annual report: Birmingham Society for Women's Suffrage 1875
• Annual report: National Society for Women's Suffrage 1875
• Eighth Annual report: Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage 1875
• Eighth Annual report: Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage 1876
• Report: Bristol and West of England Society for Women's Suffrage 1876
• Seventh Annual report: Birmingham Society for Women's Suffrage 1876
• Annual report: National Society for Women's Suffrage 1876
• Ninth Annual report: Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage 1876
• Ninth Annual report: Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage 1877
• Eighth Annual report: Birmingham Society for Women's Suffrage 1877
• Report: Bristol and West of England Society for Women's Suffrage 1877

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Part 1 of looseleaf volume:

• Osler, A.C.; Why women need the vote
• Macmillan, Chrystal; Facts versus fancies on woman suffrage
• Anker, Ella; Women's suffrage in Norway
• Stout, Lady; Woman suffrage in New Zealand
• Royden, A. Maude; How women use the vote
• Zimmern, Alice; Demand and achievement

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Part 2 of looseleaf volume:

• Palmer, Robert and Scott, A. MacCallum; Woman's suffrage in the working
• Address of the President at the Seventh Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance
• The World movement for woman suffrage 1904-1911

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Part 2 of looseleaf volume:

• Enfranchisement of women, the law of the land; Smith
• Latest intelligence from the planet Venus
• Women's rights as preached by women
• Dream of 1900 AD; Cassandra
• Local Government Act 1888 in relation to women voters
• Report: National Society for Women's Suffrage 1891
• Occasional paper: National Society for Women's Suffrage 1891
• Report: National Society for Women's Suffrage 1891
• Female suffrage: a letter from Gladstone to Samuel Smith
• Reply to the letter of Mr Samuel Smith MP on women's suffrage; Mrs Fawcett
• Historical retrospect
• Speech; Jebb
• Women's suffrage candidates for the general election of 1892
• Speech in moving the extension of the parliamentary franchise to women bill; Rollit
• Text of the Women's Franchise Bill

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Part 1 of looseleaf volume:

• Religious aspect of the women's movement
• Ward, H.M; Notes of address given at St Mary the Virgin, Soho
• Royden, A. Maude; Extracts from May mission speeches
• Chapman; Appeal to churchmen
• Hanson, Helen B.; From East to West
• Roberts, Ursula; Cause of purity and women's suffrage
• Green, F.M.; Clergy and politics
• Olivier, H.E.; Place of women in the Councils of the Church
• Olivier, H.E.; Christian citizenship
• Kensington, Bishop of; Moral issues involved in the women's movement
• Women and the national mission
• Woman's movement
• Stone, Darwell; Ministrations of women in church 1916
• Simms, A.E.N.; St Paul and the woman movement
• Convocation of Canterbury

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