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Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and the Victorian Feminist Movement

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Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and the Victorian Feminist Movement Synopsis

This book provides the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918) - someone referred to among contemporaries as ‘the grey matter in the brain’ of the late-Victorian women’s movement. A pacifist, humanitarian ‘free-thinker’, Wolstenholme Elmy was a controversial character and the first woman ever to speak from a public platform on the topic of marital rape. Lauded by Emmeline Pankhurst as ‘first’ among the infamous militant suffragettes of the Women’s Social and Political Union, Wolstenholme Elmy was one of Britain’s great feminist pioneers and, in her own words, an ‘initiator’ of many high-profile campaigns from the nineteenth into the twentiethth century. Wright draws on an extensive resource of unpublished correspondence and other sources to produce an enduring portrait that does justice to Wolstenholme Elmy’s momentous achievements. -- .

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ISBN: 9780719081095
Publication date: 30th September 2011
Author: Maureen Wright
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 296 pages
Series: Gender in History
Genres: History and Archaeology
European history