Women in Public 1850-1900

<p>Assembling a full and comprehensive collection of material which illustrates all aspects of the emergent women's movement during the years 1850-1900 this fascinating book will prove invaluable to students of nineteenth century social history and women's studies to those studying the Victorian novel and to sociologists.</p><p>Women's pamphlets and speeches parliamentary debates and popular journalism letters and memoirs royal commissions and the leading reviews are all used to document the conflicting images of women: 'surplus women' and the issue of emigration; women's work and male hostility to it; the opening of education by Emily Davies; the claim to equity at law; the attack on the sexual double standard led by Josephine Butler; women's public service from philanthropy - exemplified in a Mary Carpenter or Louisa Twining or Octavia Hill - to local government; and finally women's entry into politics led by Lydia Becker.</p><p>The contents range from Caroline Norton on her battle for child custody in the 1830s to Annie Besant's inspiration of the match-girl's strike in 1888 and from W. T. Stead on child prostitution to Mrs Humphrey War's <em>Appeal </em>against female suffrage in 1889.</p><p>The book was originally published in 1979.</p>