Garrisonian women did not necessarily oppose woman suffrage, but they emphasized instead the right of women to gain equal access to education and employment; equality within marriage, the family ...

The enormous success of the temperance movement among native-born American women between 1874 and 1900 entwined the destiny of the suffrage movement with the temperance movement during the last ...

After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...

But Parliament, which was made up entirely of men, rejected it. Women around the country set up Women's Suffrage Groups to campaign for the right to vote. In 1897, the National Union of Women's ...

This is an Anti-Suffrage pamphlet (cost 1d), published by the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League which was founded on 21 July 1908 to oppose votes for women. There were branches all over the UK.

The dismissal of this amendment led to the establishment of formal suffrage societies across England and Ireland. Yet, despite over four decades of campaigning, female suffrage had still not been ...