CHAPTER XXIV

1910

THE GENERAL ELECTION, THE TRUCE, THE CONCILIATION COMMITTEE, A SERIES OF GREAT DEMONSTRATIONS. WAR IS AGAIN DECLARED. ANOTHER GENERAL ELECTION. CONCLUSION.

With the opening of the new year, 1910, whilst many of the women were still in prison, the General Election began. The Women's Social and Political Union fought the Government in forty constituencies. In almost every one of these contests the Liberal vote was reduced, and eighteen of the seats, which had been held by Government representatives at the dissolution, were wrested from them. During the election the Liberal Government's absolute majority over all sections of the House had been swept away, and they were now dependent for their existence upon the votes of the Labour and Irish parties.

The Suffragettes were now advised in many quarters that the militant tactics had forced the Government to the point of wishing to gain peace by granting votes to women, but that Cabinet Ministers were now afraid to do so lest they should seem to have given way to coercion. The contest for supreme power in the new Parliament being over, the women therefore decided to give the re-elected Government and the Parliamentary supporters of Women's Suffrage a quiet opportunity to settle the matter between them. On February 14th, the W. S. P. U. proclaimed a truce, and the Women's Freedom League followed suit.

During the past year more than twenty thousand meetings had been held by the W. S. P. U. alone, in addition to the many thousands organised by the other suffrage societies. Now that militancy was to be laid aside a period of even greater effort in the direction of building up the organisation and extending the purely educational work was to be entered upon.

Important developments were also to take place within Parliament itself. For many years a committee of Parliamentary supporters of Women's Suffrage, had existed. This was originally inaugurated on June 10th, 1887, under the influence of Miss Lydia Becker. It was strictly non-party, Members from all sections of the House having belonged to it. During the Parliament elected in 1906, however, the old committee had been allowed to lapse. The Liberal supporters of the question formed a Women's Suffrage Committee of their own, and, abandoning the attempt to secure votes for women, and seeking instead to extend the franchise all around, they had put forward Mr. Geoffrey Howard's Reform Bill, which had had no chance of being carried.

Now, largely owing to the efforts of Mr. H. N. Brailsford, a "Conciliation Committee" was formed with the object of uniting all sections of opinion favourable to women's enfranchisement and of coming to a common agreement upon some particular measure. The Earl of Lytton acted as Chairman of this Committee and Mr. Brailsford, himself, as Secretary. Its members consisted of twenty-five Liberals, seventeen Conservatives, six Irish Nationalists, and six members of the Labour Party. In discussing the terms of the Bill to be adopted, the Unionist members urged that it should be moderate, whilst the Liberals insisted that it must give no loophole for increasing the possibilities of plural voting or of adding to the power of the propertied classes. Though the majority of the women who attend the English Universities do so as a preparation for earning their livelihood, the Liberals did not wish to see the Franchise for University graduates, which is exercised by men, extended to women because, as they said, the poorest women do not graduate. For similar reasons they opposed the granting of votes to women under the Joint Household qualification, which applies only to houses rented at twenty pounds a year and upwards; under the Lodger franchise, which applies only to those who pay at least four shillings a week for an unfurnished room; and under the Ownership franchise. To overcome the objections of the self-styled democrats, the old Women's Enfranchisement Bill which would have given bare justice to women by extending the Parliamentary vote to them on equal terms with men was therefore abandoned, and a measure was drafted on the lines of the existing Municipal Franchise of which the basis is occupation and under which there is no qualification for Owners, Lodgers or Graduates.

Local Government was the earliest form of government in this country; it has been the most persistent and staple. Government from the centre was of later growth, and has many times been interrupted. The Municipal Franchise as it exists to-day is chiefly dependent on the Municipal Corporations Acts of 1835 and 1839. Before the passing of the first of these Acts women possessed and exercised equal voting rights with men in regard to matters of local Government, but the act of 1835 deprived them of these rights in all towns incorporated under it. In 1865, however, Women's Suffrage societies, demanding the admission of women to both national and local franchises, sprang into being, and when the Municipal Corporation's Act of 1869 was before Parliament, Mr. Jacob Bright succeeded in carrying an amendment to restore to women the rights of which the Act of 1835 had deprived them. It was a Liberal Government that framed and carried the Municipal Corporation's Act of 1869, and that Government accepted the amendment to extend its provisions to women. There was no suggestion then, nor has any since been made, that that franchise, when exercised either by men or women, is undemocratic when applied to municipal purposes.

Therefore, following the lines of the existing municipal franchise, the Conciliation Committee proposed to extend the Parliamentary vote to women householders and to women occupiers of business premises paying ten pounds a year and upwards. It was estimated that ninety-five per cent. of the women who would be enfranchised under this Conciliation Bill would be householders. To the householder franchise no monetary qualification whatsoever is attached, and every one who inhabits even a single room over which he or she has full control is counted as a householder.

As soon as this bill had been decided upon by the members of Parliament, who formed the Conciliation Committee, it was submitted to the various suffrage and other women's organisations, with a request to adopt it. Many of the societies, including the militants, at first demurred on the ground that though the number of women enfranchised would not differ greatly, the principle of equality between men and women, which the Women's Enfranchisement Bill had laid down, would be sacrificed by the new measure. Mr. Brailsford and others urged, however, that the Conciliation Bill was the only one to which the various sections in the House who supported Women's Suffrage would agree. They also pointed out that, as the women whom it was proposed to enfranchise were already upon the Municipal Register, no difficulty would be experienced in adding the lists of their names to the Parliamentary Register also before the next General Election, even should this take place within the year. Therefore, on condition that it should be passed during the session, all the various women's organisations worked wholeheartedly for the measure.

On June 18 the W. S. P. U. organised in support of the Conciliation Bill a greater procession of women than had ever yet been held, in which joined numbers of organisations, both national and international. Headed by a company of six hundred and seventeen women in white dresses carrying long gleaming silver staves tipped with broad arrows, each representing an imprisonment, the massed ranks with their gay banners took more than an hour and a half to pass a given point. The Great Albert Hall was able to contain but a section of the processionists.

No place for Women's Suffrage had been obtained in the private Members' ballot. The Conciliation Bill had been drafted in the hope that the Government would provide time for its discussion, and five days after the great procession, the Prime Minister, in reply to an influentially signed petition of Members of Parliament, promised to give facilities for the second reading of the Bill. At the same time he stated that he could not provide an early date for this, but, just as the militant forces were preparing for action, he agreed to fix Monday and Tuesday, July the 11th and 12th, for the discussion of the Bill.

The object of the Conciliation Bill's promoters was, of course, not merely to secure the passage of the second reading by a substantial majority, but also that it should be sent for discussion to one of the standing committees instead of being referred to a Committee of the whole House; because, if the latter course were pursued no further progress could be made unless the Government were prepared to provide more time.

As usual the attitude of the Government was anxiously awaited. It was rumoured that Mr. Lloyd George would speak in opposition to the bill, but those who believed his professions of friendship for the women's cause hoped against hope that he would not do so. Mr. Winston Churchill had been several times in conference with the officials of the Conciliation Committee and had expressed sympathy with their object. They counted confidently upon his help. It is true that some days before the debate, they had received a letter from him criticising the terms of the Bill, but they still regarded him as a friend to the measure. Nevertheless early in the second days' debate he rose to make a bitter and uncompromising attack upon it. He began by seeking to prove that the grievance of excluding women from the franchise was greatly exaggerated, that they did not suffer any legislative disability therefrom, and that neither the mass of the women themselves nor of the male electorate desired the enfranchisement of women. He went on to speak vaguely of the danger of creating "a vast body of privileged and dependent voters who might be manipulated, manœuvred in this division or in that." Then, having elaborately striven to build up a case against the granting of votes to women on any terms, he proceeded with an air of considerable magnanimity to admit that a slight grievance existed because all women were disfranchised. He was of the opinion that this grievance could only be redressed in one or two ways; either by giving the vote "to some of the best women of all classes" or by giving the vote to every woman. The former method he described as "the first way," and he said, "I always hoped the Conciliation Committee would travel along that road." In particularising his favourite method of proceeding by means of his proposed special franchises he admitted that no doubt these would be "disrespectfully called 'fancy franchises,'" and explained that they would give the vote to "a comparatively small number of women of all classes on considerations" of "property," "earning capacity" or "education." These special franchises would, he said, "be fairly balanced, one against the other, so as not on the whole to give an undue advantage to the property vote as against the wage earning vote." "That," he said, "would not be a Democratic proposal...." "It would provide for the representation of the sex through the strongest, most capable and most responsible women in every class and that would meet the main grievance in my humble judgment."

Thus the loudly professing democrat, Mr. Churchill, proposed to enfranchise only those women whom the members of the Conciliation Committee, in the earnest and patient effort to comply with Mr. Asquith's proviso that their Bill must be democratic, had gradually weeded out. They had excluded the property owners as such in favor of their poorer sisters, the graduates, because only the comfortably circumstanced can go to college, and the lodgers, because the majority of women wage earners, to the shame of our country, cannot afford to pay four shilling a week for their rooms. These three classes, the women who own property, those who have graduated at college and those who earn comparatively high wages, were surely those whom Mr. Churchill had intended to indicate. The women had agreed to their exclusion because, as compared with the householders, their numbers were small. This was the very reason for which Mr. Churchill had selected them for inclusion, for he described the Conciliation Bill as "an enormous addition to the Franchise," though it would only enfranchise one million women as against seven million men.

He went on to attack the terms of the Conciliation Bill describing it as "anti-Democrat," and declaring that it gave representation to property as against persons. "The more I study the Bill," he said, "the more astonished I am that such a large number of respected Members of Parliament should have found it possible to put their names to it." He complained that the bulk of married women would not be able to qualify, but that a man who owned a house and stable would be able to qualify his wife for the former and himself for the latter, as though that would not also be the case under his own proposed "fancy franchises." He asserted that the young inexperienced girl of twenty-one would be enfranchised under the Conciliation Bill, whilst "the woman who keeps by her labour an invalid husband and his family" would get no vote. Yet in practice we all know that girls of twenty-one are not usually qualified either as householders or occupiers, and in justice, and let us hope in its practice also, the woman who works to maintain her husband and family, is counted as the responsible householder and would vote instead of the husband she maintains.

He ended with a final appeal to Members to vote against the Bill, saying that a vote on the Second Reading of this Bill was equivalent to that on the Third Reading of any other, and that those who cast their votes for it, should be able to say, "I want this Bill passed into law this session regardless of all other consequences. I want it as it is; and I want it now."

Mr. Asquith spoke against the principle of Women's enfranchisement in general, and against the Conciliation Bill in particular. He began by saying that a franchise measure ought not to be sent to a standing committee but to one of the Whole House. He declared also that his conditions that proof must be shown that the majority of the women desired any proposed measures for their enfranchisement and that the measure should be democratic in its character, had not been complied with.

Towards the end of the debate Mr. Lloyd George also threw the weight of his influence into the scale against the Bill. He stated that he agreed with every word both relevant and irrelevant that had been uttered by Mr. Churchill. Nevertheless he refrained from depreciating the abstract principle of Women's Suffrage as the Home Secretary had done, and directed his attack wholly against the terms of the Bill. In defiance of the fact he persistently declared that the Conciliation Committee which had drafted the Bill was "a committee of women meeting outside the House," and that they had come to the House saying, "not merely must you vote for Women's Suffrage, but you must vote for the particular form upon which we agree, and we will not even allow you to deliberate upon any other form." He said that this was a position which "no self-respecting legislature could possibly accept;" yet the Government had all the Parliamentary year at their disposal to introduce what measures they chose, and for years and years the women had been calling upon them to formulate a Women's Suffrage measure of their own. It had been urged, he said, that this Bill was better than none at all.

"Why should that be the alternative?" he asked. But when a member called out, "What is the Other?" he answered evasively, "Well I cannot say for the moment; but allow me, I am trying to concentrate for the sake of others who desire to follow me in this debate."

Later he said: "If the promoters of this Bill say that they regard the Second Reading merely as an affirmation of the principle of Women's Suffrage, and if they promise that when they reintroduce the Bill it will be in a form which will enable the House of Commons to move any Amendment either for restriction or for extension I shall be happy to vote for this Bill."

"Will the Government give time?" asked Mr. Roch, a Liberal member, but the only answer was: "That is a question for the Prime Minister."

Mr. Snowden, winding up the debate for the promoters of the Bill, replied to Mr. Lloyd George's challenge. He said: "We will withdraw this Bill, if the Right Hon. gentleman on behalf of the Government or the Prime Minister himself, will undertake to give to this House the opportunity of discussing and carrying through its various stages another form of franchise Bill. If we cannot get that, then we shall prosecute this Bill." Mr. Lloyd George and the other members of the Government sat silent. They well knew the difficulties under which the Conciliation Committee laboured, and they knew, too, that the women were striving at great cost and sacrifice to obtain for their sex the largest possible measure of representation; but with the power to speedily bring the matter to a satisfactory conclusion, they preferred to hamper the efforts of both with obstructive criticism. As Mr. Snowden aptly put it:

"It would pass the wit of man to put that principle into a Bill which would meet with the approval of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Home Secretary."

Mr. Balfour, Mr. Haldane, and Mr. Runciman were amongst those who spoke in support of the Bill, but the two Ministers urged that it should not be allowed to pass to one of the standing Committees.

After thirty-nine speeches had been delivered the division was taken. The Second Reading was then found to have been carried by 299 votes to 190, giving a favourable majority of 109, a majority larger than that cast during the Parliament for any measure and even for the Government's vaunted Budget and House of Lords Resolutions.

A division was next taken on a resolution to refer the Bill to a Committee of the Whole House. The anti-Suffragists, in the hope of shelving the Bill, those who feared to anger the Government and those who genuinely believed that so important a measure should be considered by the Whole House in each of its stages combined to carry this resolution by 320 votes to 175.

The question was now whether the Government would allow the few days necessary for the Committee and other final stages. Practically all other important legislative work was hanging fire because of the deadlock in regard to the House of Lords controversy. The Conference between the leaders of the Conservative and Liberal parties, which, after King Edward's death, had been set up to discuss this matter, was still sitting and until its deliberations were at end no progress towards a settlement would be made. Therefore for the moment Parliament had plenty of time on its hands, and urgent pressure was brought upon the Government to give out of this abundance to the Women's Bill.

On July 17th the Men's Political Union for Women's Suffrage, the Men's League for Women's Suffrage and the Conciliation Committee held a joint meeting in Hyde Park, in support of the Bill. On July 23rd, the Anniversary of the day in 1867 on which the pulling down of the Hyde Park Railings won the vote for the working men in the towns, the Women's Social and Political Union held another great demonstration there for which a space of half a square mile was specially cleared. There were forty platforms, many societies co-operated and two fine processions--one from the East and the other from the West--marched to the meeting. The older Suffragists had also demonstrated in Trafalgar Square, but on the very day of the W. S. P. U.'s big Hyde Park meeting the Prime Minister wrote to Lord Lytton refusing to allow any further time for the Bill that session.

But Parliament was to meet again in the Autumn. It was still hoped that the Government might concede the time then. Resolutions urging them to do so were sent in from numbers of popularly elected bodies including the Corporations of Manchester, Liverpool, Bradford, Nottingham, Glasgow, Dundee, Dublin, Cork, and thirty others.

There were signs that the truce of the militants, which had lasted for nine months, would soon be at an end. This time it was men friends to the cause who gave the first warning. On October 17th young Mr. Victor Duval, now secretary of the Men's Political Union for Women's Suffrage was arrested for seizing Mr. Lloyd George by the lapel of his coat and rebuking him for his hostility to the Women's Bill as he passed into the City Temple where he was to speak. Mr. George Jacobs, an elderly man saw that the police were treating Duval roughly and called out to them, "Do not hurt him." He also was arrested and both men were imprisoned for a week.

Mr. Lloyd George had been speaking against the Conciliation Bill in Wales, and numbers of Welsh women Liberals plainly showed their disapproval of his action. The women constituents of several other Cabinet Ministers were pressing to be received in deputation, and in view of the General Election they could scarcely be denied. On October 27th, Mr. Asquith consented to see the women of East Fife. He told them that facilities could not be granted before the close of the year and even when asked what of next year he merely answered, "Wait and see." Other Ministers seconded him. They were all agreed in refusing to allow the Bill to pass into law that year.

Therefore at a great meeting in the Albert Hall on November 10th the truce broke--war was once more declared. Mrs. Pankhurst announced that another deputation would march to the House of Commons to carry a petition to the Prime Minister. She herself would lead the deputation, "If I were to go alone," she said, "still I would go," but at that hundreds of women's voices cried out from all parts of the Hall: "Mrs. Pankhurst, I will go with you," "I will go!" "I will go!" Then Mrs. Pethick Lawrence called for funds for the campaign, and nine thousand pounds was immediately subscribed.

The Autumn Session lasted but a few days, for on November 18, Mr. Asquith announced that Parliament would be dissolved on November 28th, and that a general election would take place. Even whilst he spoke, the women,--450 of them, divided into companies of less than twelve to keep within the law,--were marching from the Caxton Hall and Clement's Inn. Mrs. Pankhurst, Dr. Garrett Anderson, founder of Girton College and one of the medical women pioneers now over seventy years of age, Mrs. Hertha Ayrton, the scientist, Mrs. Cobden Sanderson, and Miss Neligan and Mrs. Brackenbury, both of whom had reached the great age of seventy-eight, were amongst the first little band. They soon learnt that the Prime Minister had refused to see them. Some of their number were hurled back into the crowd. The remainder were kept standing on the porch for hours with the shut door before them and a surging crowd behind.

The companies of women who came after were torn apart, felled to the ground, struck again and again, bruised and battered, and tossed hither and thither with a violence that perhaps excelled anything that had gone before. One hundred and fifteen women and four men were eventually arrested. But the full story of that day's happenings belongs to another, and, let us hope, to the last chapter of this long fight.

Meanwhile the Prime Minister forgot to reply to Mr. Keir Hardie's question as to the fate of the Conciliation Bill. Lord Balcarries then moved a resolution which was practically a vote of censure upon the Government for their treatment of the women. Fifty-two Members voted for it, but it was lost. Eventually Mr. Lloyd George said the Prime Minister would make a statement on the following Tuesday.

Tuesday saw the Women's Parliament again in Session and the women waiting eagerly for the news. Mr. Asquith said: "The Government will, if they are still in power, give facilities in the next Parliament for effectively proceeding with a Bill which is so framed as to admit of free amendment." He refused, however, to promise that this should be done during the first year of the New Parliament.

Facilities for the Conciliation Bill had been asked for; the reply that facilities would be given to a Bill so framed as to admit of free amendment was too vague to please the women. But the refusal to grant an opportunity for passing a Suffrage Bill into law during the first year of Parliament was more serious. The Parliament now to be dissolved had lasted less than a year. Who could insure a longer life for its successor? Mr. Asquith had given the women scant reason to trust any vague promises of his.

Therefore Mrs. Pankhurst announced to the women, "I am going to Downing Street. Come along, all of you;" and the women went. The police, however, gradually beat them back, and over a hundred arrests were made. On Wednesday, there were eighteen further arrests, and twenty-nine more on Thursday. Many of the women were discharged, but seventy-five received sentences of imprisonment varying from fourteen days to one month.

Then came the general election, and again the Suffragettes strenuously opposed the Government. In almost every constituency fought by them the Liberal vote was reduced. A notable instance was that of Cardiff, where a Liberal majority of 1555 was converted into a Conservative majority of 299. Here the 800 members of the Women's Liberal Association abstained from working for their party because its candidate, Sir Clarendon Hyde, was opposed to votes for women. The end of the election saw the Liberal government still in power.

During the year the Women's Suffrage societies had all grown largely. The Women's Social and Political Union's salaried staff now stands at 110 persons. Its central offices at Clement's Inn occupy twenty-three rooms, and a shop and thirteen rooms have also been taken for the Woman's Press at 156 Charing Cross Road. There are also 105 local centres of the Union. The income of the central organisation of the W. S. P. U. during 1910 was 34,500 pounds excluding 9,000 pounds made by the Woman's press and many thousands collected by the local Unions. The twenty thousand pound campaign fund is now complete.

The Conciliation Bill has been again introduced. Again its scope and title have been modified to please the "democrats." Its text now is:--

Every woman possessed of a household qualification within the meaning of the representation of the people Act (1884) shall be entitled to be registered as a voter and when registered to vote for the county or borough in which the qualifying premises are situate.

For the purposes of this Act a woman shall not be disqualified by marriage from being registered as a voter provided that a husband and wife shall not both be registered as voters in the same Parliamentary Borough or County Division.

In reply to a deputation of women who waited upon him in October, 1910, Mr. Birrell said: "I am strongly of opinion that in the course of next year facilities must be given for the Bill. You are perfectly right," he added, "in feeling irritated and annoyed at the delay that has taken place and in insisting on a date for Parliamentary action."

Mr. Asquith's promise is that facilities for a Women's Suffrage measure will be granted during this Parliament. Such statements as these must now be held as binding, and the long standing Government veto of this question must be withdrawn.

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So the gallant struggle for a great reform draws to its close. Full of stern fighting and bitter hardship as it has been, it has brought much to the women of our time--a courage, a self-reliance, a comradeship, and above all a spiritual growth, a conscious dwelling in company with the ideal, which has tended to strip the littleness from life and to give to it the character of an heroic mission.

May we prize and cherish the great selfless spirit that has been engendered, and, applying it to the purposes of our Government--the nation's housekeeping--the management of our collective affairs, may we, men and women together, not in antagonism, but in comradeship, strive on till we have built up a better civilisation than any that the world has known. For surely just as those children are fortunate who have two parents, a mother and a father, to care for them, so is the nation fortunate that has its mothers and its fathers, its brothers and its sisters, working together for the common good.

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INDEX

A

Aberdeen _Free Press_, 180

Abernethy meeting, 451

Act of Charles II, 197

Ainsworth, Miss, 441

Albert Hall demonstration, 445; first great meeting, 209; meeting, 41, 242, 464

Aldwych theatre, 367

Allen, Mary, 395

Amery, L. S., 232

Anderson, Dr. Garrett, 243, 502

Anti-Corn Law League, 4

Anti-Government by-election policy, 96

Anti-Suffrage Society first organised, 147

Appeal of Pankhurst and Haverfield, 467

Archdale, Mrs., 451, 453

Arrest of Alice Milne, 127; Arnold Cutler, 331; Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney, 29; Daisy Solomon, 364; deputation at Official Residence, 64; Irene Miller, 64; Isabel Kelley, 423; Lady Constance Lytton, 449; Mrs. Baines, 130, 325; Mrs. Despard, 361; Mrs. Lawrence, 364; Mrs. Pankhurst and Mrs. Haverfield, 386; Victor Duval, 500

Arrests at Birmingham, 428; at Bolton, 463; at Colston Hall, 461; at Crewe, 463; at Fifth Women's Parliament, 270; at Guild Hall, 459; at Leicester, 422; at Lime House, 409; at Liverpool, 463; at Manchester, 88; at Northampton, 85; at opening of Parliament, 103; at Rochester Row, 107; at Third Women's Parliament, 196; at Waterloo, 463; in Feb., 1907, 139; on March 20, 1907, 155; on June 30, 1908, 254

Asquith, Right Hon. Henry Herbert, 222, 360, 384, 419, 426, 446, 459, 464, 475, 479, 496; at Northampton, 81; letter to, 83; his "prisoners," 96; becomes Prime Minister, 222; views on Stanger Bill, 234; his windows stoned, 253; waylaid at Lympne, 420

Ashton, Margaret, 73, 224

Attercliffe by-election, 377

Ayrton, Mrs. Hertha, 438, 502

B

Baines, Mrs. Jennie, 130, 405, 447, 483; arrest of, 325; trial of, 326 _et seq._

Bairstow, Mr., 326

Baker, Mrs., 411

Balfour, Lady Betty, 438

Balfour, Sir Arthur, 8, 15, 18, 40, 129, 499

Balcarres, Lord, 371, 502

Balgarnie, Florence, 233

Banbury, Sir F. G., 219

Bateson, Mrs. Mary, 75

Battersea, a typical meeting, 99; campaign, 100; meeting at, 328

Baxter, Sir G., 231

Beales, Edmund, 79

Becker, Lydia, 4, 489

Bedford Corn Exchange, 406

Beerbohm, Max, 285

Bell, Capt. Morrison, 184

Bennett, Curtis, 143, 272, 273, 276, 280, 281, 286, 476

Benson, Mrs. Godfrey, 324

Benson, T. D., letter from, 89

Bermondsey by-election, 456

Berwick Women's Liberal Ass'n, 438

Bertram, Julius, 127

Bill for the Enfranchisement of Women first prepared, 8

Bill introduced by Dickinson, 147

Billington, Theresa, 41, 65, 80, 97

Bingley Hall Meeting, 426

Birmingham, arrests at, 428; _Daily Mail_, 33; meeting at, 328; prison, 431; Women's Liberal Ass'n, 438

Birrell, Mr., 340, 421, 505

Black, W. G., 146

Blake, Lady, 438

Boggart Hole Clough demonstration, 175

Bourchier, Dr. Helen, 192, 194

Bovey Tracey meeting, 182

Bow Street Police Court, trials at, 254; trial of three leaders, 271; imprisonment of three leaders, 266

Brackenbury, Georgina, 196

Brackenbury, Marie, 196, 292, 407

Brackenbury, Mrs., 502

Brackenbury, Sir Henry, 196

Bradford, meeting at, 328; Shipley Glen meeting, 257

Brailsford, H. N., 437, 456, 489

Brailsford, Mrs. J. E. M., 448, 449

Bramley, F., 146

Branch, Mrs., 438

Brand, Bessie, 405

Brand, Sir David, 405

Brawling Bill, 370, 372

Brewster, Bertha, 379, 443

Bright, Jacob, 4

Bright, John, 313

Bristol prison, 461

_British Medical Journal_, 435

Brown, Amelia, 459

Brown, Kathleen, 448

Bryce, J., 146

Bull, Sir William, 203

Burkitt, Hilda, 441

Burns, John, 78, 99, 203, 277, 314, 367, 428

Burns, Lucy, 409, 411, 417

Bury St. Edmunds by-election, 165

Butler, Josephine, 55, 96

Buxton, Sidney, 177, 184, 407

By-election at Attercliffe, 377; Bermondsey, 456; Bury St. Edmunds, 165; Chelmsford, 349; Cleveland, 423; Croydon, 377; Colne Valley, 163; Dumfriesburgh, 425; East Edinburgh, 377; Forfar, 377; Glasgow, 377; Haggerston, 257; Hawick Burghs, 377; Hexham, 157; Hull, 181; Jarrow, 161; Mid-Devon, 181; Newcastle, 257; Oakham, 159; Peckham, 212; Pembrokeshire, 257; Rutland, 157; Sheffield, 377; South Aberdeen, 146; South Edinburgh, 377; South Hereford, 188; Stratford-on-Avon, 377; Stirling Burghs, 238; Uppingham, 160; Wimbledon, 169

By-election policies, 95 _et seq._

By-elections and policies of Suffragettes, 166; results of, 166

C

Cabinet meetings invaded, 176

Cabinet Ministers called upon, 191

Campbell, Rev. R. J., 341, 438

Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, 40, 150, 222; at Sun Hall meeting, 50; evades deputation, 63; heckled at Dunfermline, 175; receives deputation, 76

Campaign at Battersea, 99; Cockermouth, 92; East Fife, 97; Edinburgh, 174; Jarrow, 161; Mid-Devon, 182; Peckham, 214; in Wales, 97; of Oct., 1905, 24 _et seq._; of 1906, 40 _et seq._

Canford Park, 413

Capper, Mabel, 409

Carpenter, W. B., 231

Carson, Sir Edward, 372

Castioni case, the, 396

Caxton Hall, meeting, 57; Parliament, 138; Second Women's Parliament, 152; Third Women's Parliament, 192; Fifth Women's Parliament, 266

Cecil, Lord Robert, 123, 129, 203, 351, 389, 468, 470

Central office opened, 133

Chains and padlocks, 329

Chamberlain, Joseph, 314

Chapin, Mrs., 458

Chaplin, Henry, 169, 172

Chapman, Hugh, 396

Chatterton, Ada, 155

Cheetham Hill meeting, 43

Chelmsford by-election, 349

Chelsea, meeting at, 328

Chesterton, G. K., 13

Chorlton Board of Guardians, 6

Christmas in Holloway gaol, 132

Churchill, Lord Randolph, 313, 362, 413

Churchill, Winston, 27, 133, 219, 224, 253, 405, 422, 450, 452, 460, 461, 493, 495; campaign against, 43 _et seq._; at Cheetham meeting, 44; at Dundee, 227

Clarke, Charles G., 219

Clarkson, Florence, 405, 443, 444

Clayton, Joseph, 361

Classification of Holloway gaol prisoners, 125

Cleveland by-election, 423

Clifton, Durdham Downs meeting, 257

Clive, Capt. Percy A., 189

Clothing furnished in Holloway gaol, 111

Clyde, Constance, 155

Cobbett, William, 390

Cobden, Richard, 102

Cockermouth by-election, 92

Colne Valley by-election, 163

Coleridge, Lord, 4

Collecting funds, 208

Colston Hall meeting, 461

Conciliation Bill, 491

Conciliation Committee, 489

Conolly, Dr., 432

Constable, A. H. B., 232

Contrasting policies of Suffragists and Suffragettes, 172

Cook, Mrs. Kennindale, 192

Cooke, Florence, 394

Cooper, Dr. George, 180, 457

Corbett, Mrs. Frank, 451, 453

Craig, Dr. Maurice, 477

Cremer speech against Suffrage Resolution, 68

Crewe, Lord, 416, 417

Croft, Edward, 144

Crombie, W. J., 232

Croydon by-election, 377

Cuckfield resolution, 237

Curran, Peter, 163

Cust, H. J. Cockayne, 457

Cutler, Arnold, 331

D

_Daily Chronicle_, 198, 239

_Daily Mail_, 33, 214, 216

_Daily Mirror_, Northampton, 86

_Daily News_, 157, 180, 183, 237, 248

_Daily Telegraph_, 388

Davidson, Dr. W. A., 435

Davies, Emily, 73, 243

Davies, Llewellyn, 52

Davison, Emily Wilding, 454, 478

DeLegh, Miss, 416 Demonstration at Boggart Hole Clough, 175; of protest on June 30, 1908, 250; of the unemployed, 263

Deputations to Mr. Asquith, 81 _et seq._

De Rutzen, Sir Albert, 192, 364, 367, 390, 468

Despard, Mrs., 102, 361, 475

Dewsbury, 231

Dickinson Bill, 147

Dickinson, Sarah, 6, 53, 73

Disguises utilised, 41

Disorders at Newton Abbot, 185

Dove-Wilcox, Mrs., 397, 401 _et seq._

Drage, Jeffrey, 425

Drummond, Flora, 48

Drummond, Mrs., 226, 446; arrest of, 64; opening London campaign, 56; at Eye by-election, 67; at third attack upon the House, 131; at Peckham, 218; at the great Hyde Park meeting, 241; in own defence at Bow Street, 320; in Holloway gaol, 333

Dumfries, Mr., 457

Dumfriesburgh by-election, 425

Dundee election, 227

Dunfermline, heckling at, 175

Duval, Victor, 500

E

East Anglican _Daily Times_, 388

East Edinburgh by-election, 377

East Fife campaign, 97

Eckford, Miss, 405

Edinburgh campaign, 174; political pageant, 445

Edwards, Miss, 441

Egbaston Woman's Liberal Ass'n, 438

Ejected from House of Commons, 70

Election address of Hon. Bertrand Russell, 171; at Dundee, 228; at North West Manchester, 224; pledges, 179

Elmy, Mrs. Wolstenholme, 16, 72

Ervine, St. John G., 221

Esler, Dr. Robert, 220

Esperance Working-Girl's Club, 59

Esslemont, G. B., 146

Evans, Samuel, 69, 98, 326

Eve, H. T., 184

_Evening News_, 199

_Evening Standard_, 33

Exeter Hall meeting, 133

Exhibition at Prince's Skating Rink, 375

Eye by-election, 66

F

Farrell, Mr. (M. P.), 332

Fawcett, Mrs. Henry, 146

Fenton, Dr. Hugh, 456

Fenton, William Hugh, 434, 477

Fenwick, Irene, 61

Fifth Women's Parliament, 266

Figner, Vera, 436

Finch, H. G., 161

First Albert Hall meeting, 209

First Anti-Suffrage Society organised, 147

First arrest of Mrs. Pankhurst, 202

First arrests, 29

First imprisonments, 31; comments on, 33 _et seq._

First Women's Suffrage open-air meeting in London, 79

Folliero, Cemino, 155

Food in Holloway gaol, 125

Forcible feeding, 433, 440, 454, 461, 481

Fordham, Mr., 401

Foreign Office, Deputation at, 73

Forfar by-election, 377

Formation of Women's Freedom League, 173

Fowler, Sir H., 232

Fraser, Foster, 128

_Free Press_, Aberdeen, 180

Free Trade Hall, Manchester, meeting, 133

G

Gannell, S. G., 231

Gannell, S. J., 232

Gardner, Alan C., 189

Garnett, Theresa, 379 _et seq._, 460

Gasson, Mrs., 74

Gautrey, T., 219

Gawthorpe, Mary, in Wales, 98; early life, 99; at Uppingham, 160; ejected from House of Commons, 102, 222, 446

General election of 1906, 40; of 1910, 488

Gibson, Flora, 50

Gladstone, Herbert, 69, 124, 141, 178, 205, 240, 253, 278, 293, 314, 331, 371, 383, 395, 397, 404, 419, 435, 455

Glasgow by-election, 377; _Evening Times_, 198; St. Andrew's Hall meeting, 51

Gooch, C. A., 219, 221

Gordon, Dr. Mary, 256

Gore-Booth, Eva, 6, 53, 73

Goulden, Emmeline, 3 _et seq._

Gretton, J., 161

Grey, Sir Edward, 25, 26, 193, 464

Guest, Hon. F., 93

Guild Hall arrests, 459

Guinness, Hon. W., 165

H

Haggerston by-election, 257

Haig, Dr. Alexander, 43

Haig, Florence, 195, 196

Haldane, Mr., 177, 418, 499

Hall, Leslie, 480, 482

Hambro, C. E., 172

Hammersmith, meeting at, 328

Harberton, Lady, 152

Harcourt, Lewis, 178, 405, 463

Harcourt, R. V., 232

Hardie, Keir, 8, 12, 17, 18, 55, 67, 127, 129, 135, 371, 383, 433, 435, 502

Hardy, Dr. Mabel, 155 Harraden, Beatrice, 243

Harvey, Capt. F. W., 165

Haverfield, Mrs., 389, 467

Hawick Burghs by-election, 377

Hay, Claud, 141

Hazleton, Mr. (M.P.), 371

Heallis, Georgina, 419, 443

Heally, Timothy, 476

Heckling Campbell-Bannerman, 175

Henle, Mr., 389

Hexham by-election, 155

Holloway Gaol, 86, 109 _et seq._, 332, 410; prisoners released from, 97; life in, 115 _et seq._; classes of prisoners in, 124 _et seq._; food in, 125; sickness in, 255; three leaders released from, 356; Miss Wallace-Dunlop fasts in, 392

Holloway, Mr. Justice, 470

Holme, Vera, 383

Horsley, Sir Victor, 434, 477

House of Commons first closed to women, 58

Housman, Clemence, 208

Housman, Lawrence, 387

Howard, Geoffrey, 365, 489

Howard's Bill, 366

Howells, W. D., 376

Howey, Elsie, 256, 367, 419, 483

Howey, Rose, 412

Huddersfield by-election, 127; meeting, 257, 328

Hudson, Miss, 479

Hughes, Mrs. Hugh Price, 59

Hughes, Spencer Leigh, 71, 163

Hull by-election, 181

Hunger strike, 392, 419

Hunt, Violet, 208

Hutton, Alfred, 239

Hyde Park, great demonstration, 241 _et seq._

Hyde, Sir Clarendon, 504

I

Idris, T. H. W., 269

Imprisonment, first, 31

Independent Labor party, 5, 7

Independent by-election policy, 95

Indignation meeting at Cheetham Hill, 47

Innes, P. Rose, 163

Invasion of Cabinet meetings, 176

Ipswich meeting, 348

J

Jacobs, George, 501

Jarrow by-election, 161

Jarvis, Inspector, 265, 273, 278, 385, 467

Joachim, Maud, 196, 453

Jolly, Miss C., 451, 453

Joynson-Hicks, Mr., 226

K

Keevil, Gladice, 202

Kelley, Isabel, 422

Kendall, James, 89

Kenney, Annie, early life, 19; at the Manchester meeting, 27; first arrested, 29; trial, 30; at the Albert Hall meeting, 41; sets off to rouse London, 54; member London Committee, 61; arrested, 64; at Trafalgar Square, 80; in East Fife, 97; at Jarrow, 162; again arrested, 202; at Albert Hall meeting, 211; and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, 222; at North Bristol, 340; at Queen's Hall, 357; at Canfield Park, 413

Kenney, Jessie, 322, 362, 419, 464

Kensington, 242

Kerr, Miss, 322

Kerr, Thomas, 417

Kincardineshire, 231

Kinnaird Hall meeting, 453

Kirby, Dr. Ernest Dormer, 477

Knightsbridge, 372

L

Lambert, Lena, 253

_Lancet, The_, 432

Law, Hugh, 383

Lawrence, Mrs. Pethick, 58, 61; in Yorkshire, 97; at Parliament opening, 1906, 101; publishes _Women's Franchise_, 174; at Albert Hall meeting, 212; and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, 222; and the great Hyde Park demonstration, 241; writes to Lloyd-George, 259; in Clement's Inn office, 322; arrested and imprisoned, 364; speaks at Aldwych theatre, 368; at Prince's Skating Rink, 373; raising funds, 501

Lawson, R. G., 436

Lawson, Sir Wilfred, 93

Leaders arrested, 264

Leeds, Herbert Gladstone at, 178; meeting at Woodhouse Moor, 257

Leicester meeting, 257

Leigh, Mrs. Mary, 155, 253, 254, 281, 339, 356, 375, 410, 418, 426, 439, 447, 459

Leigh, Spencer, 457

Letter from T. D. Benson, 89

Levy, Sir Maurice, 151

Lewis, Windsor, 425

_Liberal Daily Chronicle_, 142

Life in Holloway gaol, 117 _et seq._

Lime House, Lloyd-George at, 407 _et seq._

Linnell, Alfred, 79

Littlehampton, 59

Liverpool _Courier_, 418, 421

Liverpool, Sun Hall meeting, 50

Lloyd-George, Mr., 51, 81, 178, 252, 258, 259, 267, 276, 281, 340, 342, 407, 447, 448, 478, 491

London _By-Stander_, 216

London Committee organised, 60

London _Daily Chronicle_, 248; _Daily Express_, 248; _Daily News_, 221, 436, 445; _Daily Telegraph_, 220; _Globe_, 347; _Standard_, 216, 236, 248, 347; _Star_, 218, 237; _Times_, 248, 258, 424

London, opening of campaign in 1906, 54

Long, Walter, 17, 267

Long's Bill for relief of unemployed, 17

Louth town-hall meeting, 479

Lyon, W. F., 161

Lytton, Lady Constance, 300, 364, 447, 483

Lytton, Lord, 489, 500

M

McClellan, Miss, 362

McLaren, Eva, 73

McLaren, Lady, 343

McLaren, Sir Charles, 73, 151, 365

McNeill, R., 146

Macaulay, Miss F. E., 301

MacDonald, Mrs. Meredith, 364

MacDougal, Mrs. August, 130

Macquire, Dr. Miller, 306

Maidenhead meeting, 349

Maloney, Miss, 228

Manchester, campaign of 1906, 48, 87; Churchill at Free Trade Hall, 133; _Courier_, 388; _Daily Despatch_, 389; demonstration at Boggart Hole Clough, 175; _Evening Standard_, 33; _Guardian_, 187, 224, 256, 347; Heaton Park meeting, 257; meeting at, 24, 328; protest of members from, 129; "riot," 18

Manchester Women's Suffrage Committee, 4, 5

Mansell-Moullin, Dr. C., 434, 477

Margate Women's Liberal Ass'n, 341

Marion, Kitty, 448

Married Women's Property Committee, 4

Marsden, Dora, 367, 446, 462

Marsh, Charlotte, 431, 465

Martel, Mrs. Nellie Alma, 13, 16, 61, 185

Martin, Selina, 480, 482

Martyn, Mrs. How, 103

Marylebone Police Court, 193

Massy, Col., 300

Masterman, Mr., 433

Matters, Muriel, 329, 363

May, Mrs., 300

Mechanics' Hall, Jarrow, 162

Meeting at Bovey Tracey, 182; at Caxton Hall, 57; Cheetham Hill, 43; Durdham Downs, Clifton, 257; Heaton Park, 257; Huddersfield, 257; Ipswich, 348; Leicester, 257; Maidenhead, 349; Newcastle, 258; Peckham Rye, 212; Rawtenstall, 257; St. Andrew's Hall, Glasgow, 51; Sheffield Drill Hall, 51; Shipley Glen, 257; Sun Hall, Liverpool, 50; Woodhouse Moor, 257; of protest in House of Commons lobby, 102

Mid-Devon by-election, 181

Militant tactics, inauguration of, 27

Miller, Irene, 64, 103

Milne, Alice, 127

Montrose Boroughs, 232

Mooney, Mr. (M.P.), 371

Morley, J., 232

Morley, Lord, 446

Morrissey, Mrs., 129

Moxey, Dr. Anderson, 432

"Mud March," 135

Munro, Miss, 193

Murphy, Agnes, 305

Murray, A., 231

Murray, Dr. Flora, 435

Murray, James, 304

Murray, Mr. (M.P.), 266

Muskett, Inspector, 272 _et seq._, 389

N

Naylor, Marie, 195, 196

Neal, Mary, 59, 61

Neilans, Miss Allison, 458

Neligan, Miss, 383, 502

Nevison, Henry, 300, 437, 456

New, Miss, 191, 253

Newcastle by-election, 257

Newton Abbot campaign, 182

Ninth Women's Parliament, 380

Non-Militant Suffragettes in 1906 campaign, 52

North Bristol, 340

North London Police Court, 398

North West Manchester election, 224

Northampton, Asquith at, 81; _Daily Mirror_, 86

O

Oakham by-election, 159

Officers of Women's Freedom League, 173

Official Residence, 61; closed to deputation, 63

Ogston, Helen, 344, 349

O'Hanlon, J., 163

Oldham Independent Labour Party, 19

Open-air meeting, first in London, 79

Opening of Parliament, autumn, 1908, 261

Organising the great Hyde Park demonstration, 241

Original Women's Enfranchisement Bill, 10 _et seq._

Osler, Catherine C., 437

P

_Pall Mall Gazette_, 216

Palmer, Sir C. M., 163

Pankhurst, Adela, 103, 405, 417, 451, 453

Pankhurst, Christabel, early life, 5, _et seq._; at Manchester meeting, 29; first arrested, 29; convicted and imprisoned, 31; in prison, 36; at Cheetham Hill meeting, 45; reply to Mr. Asquith, 235; again arrested, 263; Bow Street trial, 271 _et seq._; speaks in own defence, 306; in Holloway gaol, 33; released from Holloway, 356

Pankhurst, Dr. Richard Marsden, 4, 37 _et seq._

Pankhurst, Harry, 48

Pankhurst, Mrs., marriage, 5; at opening of Parliament, 1906, 102; attacked at Newton Abbot, 186; first arrested, 202; trial at Westminster Police Court, 204; at Peckham, 218; delegation excluded from House of Commons, 250; again arrested, 263; Bow Street trial, 271 _et seq._; speaks in own defence at Bow Street, 315; in Holloway gaol, 333; released from Holloway, 356; appeals under Act of Charles II, 467 _et seq._; leads deputation to House of Commons, 501

Parliament, autumn session of 1906, 101 _et seq._; of 1908, 260; proceedings over Dickinson Bill, 151

Paul, Alice, 416, 417, 459

Peacock, William, 26

Pearson, Harold, 66, 161

Peckham by-election, 212

Pembrokeshire by-election, 257

Pethick, Dorothy, 435, 448

Pethick, Henry, 58

Peters, Naici, 155

Phillips, Mary, 253, 376, 412

Pickford, Justice, 327

Pitt, Lane Fox, 327

Pledge of Women's Freedom League, 173

Plural Voting Bill, 76, 129

Police outrages at Northampton, 85

Powell, Sir Richard Douglas, 436, 477

Preston meeting, 463

Private Members Reform Bill, 365

Prince's skating rink, 372

Protest, first meeting of, 16; of Manchester members, 129

Provincial meetings, 257

Public Meeting Bill, 351

Publication of _Votes for Women_, 174; of _Women's Franchise_, 174

R

Raid on House of Commons, 140

Rainy, Mrs. Rolland, 73

Randles, Sir John, 93

Rawtenstall meeting, 257

Redmond, John, 69

Redmond, Willie, 69

Reform Act of 1884, 78

Reid, Mrs. S., 438

Release from Holloway gaol, 127

Remnant, Mrs., 329

Rendall, Sergeant-Major, 187

Results of by-elections of 1907, 166

_Review of Reviews_, 71

Rigby, Mrs., 198

Robertson, E., 231

Robertson, J. M., 148

Robins, Elizabeth, 99, 243

Robinson, Rona, 443, 446

Robson, Henry, 231

Robson, Sir William, 326

Roe, Mrs. Lucy, 55

Rochester Row Police Court, 104

Rochfort, Henri, 3

Rochfort, Noémie, 3

Roper, Esther, 6

Rosebery, Lord, 253

Rossendale Valley, 178, 463

Ross by-election, 189

Ross, Dr. Forbes, 434

Rothera, C. L., 406

Royal College of Art, 11

Rutland by-election, 157

Runciman, Mr., 231, 454, 499

Runciman, Sir Walter, 448

"Rush" defined, 310

Rushpool Hall, 415

Russell, Bertrand, 169, 172

Russell, Dr., 432

S

St. Andrew's Hall, Glasgow, 51, 416

Salter, Dr., 457

Samuel, Herbert, 406, 422, 423, 425

Sanderson, Mrs. Cobden, 102, 104, 475, 502

Scantlebury, Inspector, 250, 384

_Scotsman, The_, 388

Scottish Churches Bill, 18

Scottish women contend for enfranchisement, 358

Scrymageour, E., 231

Second term in Holloway gaol, 144

Sentences in Bow Street Police Court, 281

Seventh Women's Parliament, 364

Shackleton, E., 231

Shallard, Dorothy, 448

Sharp, Evelyn, 208, 243, 301

Shaw, Dr. Anna, 243

Sheffield Drill Hall meeting, 51

Sherwood, Arthur, 128

Shipley Glen meeting, 257

Sickert, Mrs. Cobden, 104

Simons, Margaret Travers, 269

Sinclair, May, 208

Slack, Bamford, 11

Smillie, Robert, 93, 94

Smith, A. D., 231

Smith, Frank, 55

Smith, Horace, 104, 203, 292, 294

Smith, Margaret, 417

Smith, Miss Fraser, 423

Smith, Olivia, 191

Smith, Thorley, 53

Snowden, Mr., 498

Solomon, Daisy, 362, 364

Solomon, Mrs. Saul, 366, 383

Sothall, Gertrude E., 437

South Aberdeen by-election, 146

South African war, 17

South Edinburgh by-election, 377

Southport meeting, 462

Sparborough, Mrs., 85

Spiridonova, Marie, 91

Spong, Florence, 393

Spratt, Col., 232

Stanger, H. Y., 204

Statute of Charles II, 379, 468

Steel, Flora Annie, 438

Stewart, G. H., 231

Stirling Burghs by-election, 238

Strangeways gaol, 422, 454, 478

Strangeways, H. B. T., 438

Stratford-on-Avon by-election, 377

Suffragists and Suffragettes, contrast of policies of, 172; meeting at Albert Hall, 242; new policy at by-elections, 166 _et seq._

Sun Hall meeting, 50, 418

Sussex _Daily News_, 71

Swansea, Lloyd-George heckled at, 259

T

Taylor, Paul, 87

Tennant, Dr., 432

Testimony of Herbert Gladstone, 293; of Inspector Jarvis, 278; of James Murray, M.P., 304; of Lloyd-George, 282; of Mary Brackenbury, 292; of Superintendent Wells, 274

"The Sundial," 59

_The Nation_, 221

Thomas, Rev. J. M. Lloyd, 437

Thompson, Whitely, 189

Three leaders in Holloway gaol, 332

Thorley, Mr., 458

Thorne, G., 232

Thorne, Will, 262, 277, 281

Tickets to meetings refused, 40

Titterington, Mrs., 198

Tolson, Helen, 415

Trafalgar Square, 55, 79

Trial, at Manchester, 30; at Marylebone Police Court, 194; at Rochester Police Court, 104 _et seq._; at Westminster Police Court, 142 _et seq._; of Mrs. Pankhurst after first arrest, 204; under the Act of Charles II, 198

Trials at Westminster Police Court, 155, 197

Tuke, Mrs., 322, 342, 393

Turner, B., 231

U

Unemployed, Bill for the relief of, 17; Manchester uprising, 18

Unwin, Mrs. Cobden, 104

Uppingham by-election, 160

V

Victoria women enfranchised, 359

"Votes for Women" first adopted, 7, 8

_Votes for Women_, publication of, 174

W

"Wakes Week," 23

Wallace-Dunlop, Miss, 267, 337, 381, 391, 392

Wallasey Women's Liberal Ass'n, 341

Walton gaol, 479, 481, 484

Wales, campaign in, 98

Warton, Jane, 483

Wason Cathcart, 204

Watson, Mrs., 75

Waylaying the Council, 362

Webster, Alexander, 180

Wells, Supt. of Police, 274, 276

Wentworth, Vera, 412, 419

_Westminster Gazette_, 350

Westminster Police Court, 131, 142, 197, 204, 253

Wilkie, Alex., 231

Williams, T. R., 128

Wilson, J. H., 148

Wimbledon by-election, 169

Winslow, Dr. Forbes, 432, 435

Winson Green gaol, 433, 439, 465

Wolverhampton, 232

Women first refused admission to House of Commons, 58

Women's Disabilities Removal Bill, 4

Women's Enfranchisement Bill, Asquith's views on, 234; discussed, 205 _et seq._

_Women's Franchise_, publication of, 174

Women's Franchise League, formation, 5

Women's Freedom League, 173, 328

Women's Liberal Federation, 5

Women's Social and Political Union, 7

Women's Suffrage Resolution placed in House of Commons, 67

Woodhouse, Sir J. T., 129

Woodlock, Patricia, 155, 367, 376

Wurrie, Evelyn, 443

Y

Yates, W. B., 165

Yorkshire _Weekly Post_, 388

Yoxall, Alice, 437

Z

Zangwill, Israel, 135

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