Suffragists
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- Created on: 01-04-15 12:40
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- Suffragists
- 1866-1903
- Constitutional path to reform
- Dilemma: had to rely on Parliament to pass Laws in order to achieve W.S.
- Tactic: encourage MPs into proposing Private Members' Bills
- NUWSS coordinated the campaign for W.S. and remained a constitutionalist society
- Radical suffragists - often on the border of breaking the Law
- Formed mainly of MIDDLE & UPPER class women - did not work, had more time
- Liberal Party
- Liberals accounted for MORE THAN 2/3s of the pro-suffrafe movement
- Leadership: NOT in favour. Had 'greater problems' i.e. poverty and Ireland
- Suffragist split
- 1888 - split over Ireland home rule
- The Parliament Street Society's view of supporting suffrage bills that excluded married women = split
- 1889 - Women's Franchise League (Votes for ALL women)
- Societies grouped themselves in a National organisation - NUWSS
- Led by MILLICENT FAWCETT
- BILLS
- WOODALL'S AMENDEMENT - 1884. equal franchise with men
- Opposed by Gladstone (Liberal):
- 1. He believed in separate spheres
- 2. Concerned that the amendment would lead to a rejection of the whole bill
- 3. Feared that if women were given the vote, they would vote Conservative and reduce the Liberals popularity
- Consequence: Decline in income to suffragist movement (1884-1900)
- Suggests SIGNIFICANT LOSS OF SUPPORT
- Opposed by Gladstone (Liberal):
- REFORM BILL - 1867
- JOHN STUART MILL
- Proposed an amendment to substitute the word 'man' for 'person' - to include women
- Defeated by 196 votes to 73.
- A year earlier, Barbara Bodichon formed the Women's Suffrage Committee - collected 1,500 signatures in a fortnight
- FIRST WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE BILL - 1870
- RICHARD PANKHURST
- Introduced as a Private Members' Bill - passed FIRST & SECOND readings
- Was defeated when Gladstone (PM) made it clear that the government should not support W.S.
- 250,000 signatures on a petition presented to Parliament
- Passed SECOND reading (first time since RP in 1870)
- WOODALL'S AMENDEMENT - 1884. equal franchise with men
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