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Women's Rights Collection: Journals. Part 1

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  • Collection
  • 1870-1938

This collection contains the journals of a number of suffrage organisations from the late 19th century to 1918. This includes the journals of suffragists and suffragettes, as well as religious, international and political suffrage groups, and anti-suffragists. Some journals continued beyond the passing of the Representation of the People Act in 1918 (e.g., “The Vote” by the Women’s Freedom League and “Jus Suffragii” by the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance).

Women's Rights Collection: Pamphlets and Leaflets

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  • Collection
  • 1860-1966

This collection contains the bound volume of leaflets published by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies up until 1914. It also contains the leaflets and pamphlets published by various suffrage organisations such as the Women’s Local Government Society and the Women’s Emancipation Union.

Women's Rights Collection: Annual Reports

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  • Collection
  • 1868-1929

This collection contains the annual reports of the first suffrage societies of the 19th century (e.g., the London Society for Women’s Suffrage in 1869). This includes reports of the branches of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, of the Women’s Social and Political Union, and of suffrage societies around England, Scotland, Ireland and Europe. The annual conference reports of the Women’s Freedom League continue until 1929.

Beatrice Webb's Diaries

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  • Collection
  • 1873-1943

The diaries of Beatrice Webb (1858 – 1943), including the original manuscript volumes and typescript copies with associated ephemera. Webb kept a diary from 1873 until her death in 1943, providing a detailed account of her life and work. Topics covered include the Fabian Society, the Labour Party, trade unionism, the suffrage movement, LSE, local government and communism, as well as details of Webb’s personal life, her marriage to Sidney Webb and descriptions of friends and acquaintances.

Rare Books: Women's History Collection

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  • Collection
  • 1615-1849

The books in this collection constitute some of the oldest material from The Women’s Library and LSE, dating from the early 17th century to the mid 19th century. The collection explores how social expectations of women and their perceived roles in society have changed throughout the centuries, featuring perspectives from both female and male authors. The books include academic and philosophical works, such as treatises, essays and recorded lectures, as well as petitions, instructional books, works of fiction, satire and general entertainment.

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Example title. 1893. Volume I. Index

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Example title. 1893. Volume I. May-Dec

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Cavendish-Bentinck Vol 34. Part 4 of 4

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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Cavendish-Bentinck Vol 34. Part 3 of 4

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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Cavendish-Bentinck Vol 34. Part 2 of 4

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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Cavendish-Bentinck Vol 34. Part 1 of 4

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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Cavendish-Bentinck Vol 33. Part 4 of 4

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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Cavendish-Bentinck Vol 33. Part 3 of 4

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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Cavendish-Bentinck Vol 33. Part 2 of 4

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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Cavendish-Bentinck Vol 33. Part 1 of 4

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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Cavendish-Bentinck Vol 32. Part 3 of 3

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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Cavendish-Bentinck Vol 32. Part 2 of 3

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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Cavendish-Bentinck Vol 32. Part 1 of 3

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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Cavendish-Bentinck Vol 30. Part 3 of 3

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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Cavendish-Bentinck Vol 30. Part 2 of 3

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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Cavendish-Bentinck Vol 30. Part 1 of 3

Part 1 of looseleaf volume:

  • List of parliamentary friends of women's suffrage, April, 1889
  • Women's suffrage: reasons for supporting the proposed extension of the parliamentary franchise
  • Opinions of Conservative leaders on women's suffrage
  • Report of the Executive Committee presented at the Annual General Meeting held in the Westminster Town Hall, July 9th, 1889
  • Speech of the Countess of Portsmouth at the Annual Meeting of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage
  • Declaration in favour of women's suffrage: being the signatures received at the office of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1889
  • Report of the Executive Committee presented at the Annual General Meeting held in the Westminster Town Hall, July 15th, 1890
  • Memorial to the Most Honourable the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., and the Right Honourable W.H.Smith, M.P., First Lord of the Treasury, 1891
  • Resolutions passed by representative electoral bodies, [1891?]

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Cavendish-Bentinck Vol 28. Part 4 of 4

Part 4 of looseleaf volume:

  • Annual report of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1880
  • Special circular January 1881, Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage
  • Thirteenth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1880
  • Electoral reform, by William Count, 1881
  • Woman's claim, by Emily Pfeiffer, 1881

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Cavendish-Bentinck Vol 28. Part 3 of 4

Part 3 of looseleaf volume:

  • The enfranchisement of women: the law of the land, by Sidney Smith, 1879
  • Should the parliamentary franchise be granted to women householders, by Louisa Brigg, 1879
  • Annual report of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1879
  • Ought women to have votes for members of parliament? National Society for Women's Suffrage
  • Bible texts on woman's pristine position, 1880

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Cavendish-Bentinck Vol 28. Part 2 of 4

Part 2 of looseleaf volume:

  • What women have a right to: a lecture, by Arabella Shore
  • Parliamentary franchise for women ratepayers, by Augusta Webster, 1878
  • The rights and duties of women in local government, a paper by miss Becker, 1879
  • Opinions of women on women's suffrage, Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1879

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