Catalogue description S Woman Suffrage

[Unclassified]

Belgium

Bohemia

France

Hawaii

Hungary-Roumania

India

Japan

Luxembourg

Poland

Switzerland

The file begins with a feature on 'The Woman Suffrage Movement and the War: Some of its Leaders and their Ideals' from The Ladies Field Supplement for 21 November 1914 and some cuttings which refer to the international progress of woman suffrage.

The feature article in The Ladies Field Supplement includes portraits of 29 prominent workers in the suffrage movement; these include leading members of the various suffrage organisations in Great Britain and Ireland and some of the important international figures in the I.W.S.A.

Pictured are: the Countess of Selborne; the Countess of Fingall; Mrs Gilbert Samuel; Emmeline Pankhurst; Mary Adelaide Broadhurst, Margaret Milne Farquharson; the Lady Aberconwy; Mrs Strickland; Millicent Garrett Fawcett; Alice Abadam; Emily Davies; the Hon. Mrs Alfred Lyttelton; Lady Strachy; Lady Constance Lytton; Signe Bergman (Sweden); Signora Pasini (Italy); Mary Emma Macintosh (South Africa); Carrie Chapman Catt (U.S.A.); Eline Hansen (Denmark); Julie van den Plas (Belgium); Marguerite de Witt de Schlumberger (France); Alva Ertskin Belmont (U.S.A.); Annie Furujelm (Finland); Jane Brigode (Belgium); Vida Goldstein (Austria); Senator Helen Ring Robinson (U.S.A.); Flora Denison (Canada); Rev. Anna Howard Shaw (U.S.A.); and Christabel Pankhurst.

The rest of the cuttings relate to demands for and concessions to women's suffrage in the above-mentioned countries.

Includes 1 piece in German.