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One Hand Tied Behind Us: The Rise of the Women's Suffrage Movement

by Jill Liddington & Jill Norris - £16.99  Rivers Oram (2000)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781854891112 | ISBN 10: 1854891111

"No cause can be won between dinner and tea and most of us who were married had to work with one hand tied behind us."
A vivid and moving portrait of strong women who envisaged freedoms for which we are still fighting today. The book is based on interviews with the last surviving suffragists and those who witnessed their work, and on diaries, minute books, forgotten biographies, and local newspaper accounts. It tells the story of the radical suffragists who took their suffrage message to factory gate and cottage door, to trade-union branches and the Women's Co-operative Guild. They were always democratic in their approach to winning the vote, and felt alienated from the growing violence of the middle class suffragettes.
 
Published in 1978 to critical accliam One Hand has become a women's suffrage classic. This new edition includes a critical introduction 'Women's Suffrage Twenty-One Years On'.

(Price & availability last checked: February 2019)

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In booklists: The Suffragette Movement and the Fight for the Vote,
In categories: Feminism & Women, History & Biography, Changing the World,

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