INDEX
Reading edition
Aberconway, Lord, 151-152
Acland, Mr. F. D., 32-48
Alberta, province of, returns a woman member of L.A., 119
Anderson, Dr. L. G., 97
Antisuffrage press, 71
Antisuffragist Association, 11, 41, 43
—— —— meeting, 70
Antisuffragist Association Review, 71
—— rapid conversion of, 117-118
Archbishops, the, support women's suffrage, 149
Asquith, Mr. H. H., rooted hostility to women's suffrage, 1, 11, 12, 13, 14, 27, 44
—— becomes Prime Minister, 2
—— announces intention of bringing in a Reform Bill, 2, 39, 49
—— characteristic blow from, 7, 8
—— speech on second reading of Reform Bill, 1912, 27
—— Punch's pictures of, 16, 52
—— promises regarding women's suffrage, 5, 49
—— deputations to, of suffragists, 8, 17, 18, 61
—— —— of antisuffragists, 11
—— questions addressed to him by N.U.W.S.S., 9
—— forms Coalition Government, 124
—— compares himself to Orpheus, 15
—— —— —— to Stesichorus, 144
—— ceases to be Prime Minister, 139
—— contrasted with the third Duke of Devonshire, 52, 53
—— conversion of, to women's suffrage, 133, 144
—— speech on the death of Edith Cavell, 115
—— moves women's suffrage resolution in House of Commons, 144
—— speech on Women's Clauses of Representation of the People Bill, 144
—— Miss Violet (now Lady Bonham Carter), 17
—— Mrs., 17
Astor, Lady, returned as M.P. for Plymouth, 162
Balfour, Mr. A. J., 32, 114, 121-122, 124
—— of Burleigh, Lord, 148
Bath, Mr. Lloyd George speaks on women's suffrage at, 1912, 24
Beaconsfield, Earl of, 32, 143.
See also Disraeli
Blair, Dr. Mary, 100
Brailsford, Mr. H. N., 5, 37
Bright, Mr. John, 64, 107
Bryce, Lord, 148
Bull, Sir W., M.P., 138
Burnham, Lord, 149
Burton, Mr. W., M.P., 73
Camborne, 57
Campbell-Bannerman, Sir H., 14, 32
—— deputation to, 14
Canada, women's suffrage granted in, 118, 119
Carson, Sir Edward, 74
"Cat and Mouse" Act, 65
Cave, Sir George, 147
Cecil, Lord Robert, 31-2, 74, 124, 132
Chamberlain, Mr. A., 4
Chaplin, Lord, 149
Church Congress, 75
Churchill, Mr. W., 4, 112
Coalition Government formed, 1915, 124
"Common Cause" quoted, 7
Conciliation Bill and Committee, 4
Conciliation Bill, full-dress debate on, in House of Commons, 4
—— —— second reading carried, 1910, 1911, 5
—— —— defeated, 1912, 20, 23, 29
Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association, 80
Courtney, Lord, 149
Crewe by-election, 1912, 35
Curzon, Lord, 11, 114
—— Chairman of Antisuffrage League, 114
—— speaks in House of Lords, 72, 73, 151, 152
Czech woman returned to Diet in Bohemia, 1912, 41
Daily Telegraph, 78, 145
Davidson, Miss Emily, 66-67
Davies, Miss Emily, LL.D., 16
Deputations to Ministers, 1-19, 61-64, 131, 143, 146
Devonshire, third Duke of, 52, 53
Dickinson, the Rt. Hon. Sir W., 45, 138
Disraeli, see Beaconsfield, 32, 143
Election-fighting policy, 30-38
—— —— put in force at by-elections, 1912, 13, 35
Electoral Reform Conference, 137
—— —— —— report of, 140-142
Fawcett, Mrs., sends message to societies of N.U.W.S.S., August, 1914, 88
Federal amendment carried with S.A. House of Representatives, 150
Finlay, Lord, 149
Foch, Field-Marshal, quoted, 30
Forcible feeding, 65
Ford, Miss I. O., 16
Franchise difficulties arising from war, 121-126
Friends, annual epistle of Society of, 76
Garvin, Mr., editor of the Observer, 134
George, Mr. Lloyd. See Lloyd George
Gilhooley, Mr., M.P., 23
Goldstone, Mr., M.P., 138
Goschen, Lord, 62
Grey, Earl, 149, 157
—— Sir Edward (now Viscount of Fallodon), 6, 13, 20, 32, 44
Haldane, Lord, 149
Halsbury, Lord, 149
Hanley by-election, 35
Harley, Mrs., 53, 58-61
—— killed at Monastir, 59
Healy, Mr. Timothy, M.P., 23
Henderson, Rt. Hon. A., 7, 45, 125, 132
Henry, Sir C., M.P., 11
Hills, Major, M.P., 165
Holmfirth by-election, 35
Horticultural Hall, W.L.F. meeting, 13
Hutchinson, Dr. Alice, 101
Inglis, Dr. Elsie, 95, 101
—— life of, by Lady F. Balfour, 95
—— her services to Serbia, 100
Insurance Act, 69
—— —— memorial from Antisuffrage Society, 68
International Woman Suffrage Alliance meets at Buda Pest, 83
Irish Nationalist vote on suffrage question, 23, 44
Ivens, Dr. Frances, of Royaumont, 103
Joffre, General, 99
Keogh, Surgeon-General Sir Alfred, 97
Labour Party support for women's suffrage, 3, 31, 33, 45, 73, 163
—— —— members absent from division in 1912, 22
Ladies Gallery, removal of grille from, 166
Law, Mr. Bonar, 124, 131
League of Nations Charter recognizes sex equality, 162
Legislation specially affecting women, periods before and after women's suffrage conferred, 169-172
Lloyd George, the Rt. Hon. D., supports women's suffrage, 6, 10, 11, 13, 32, 132, 139, 145
—— —— opposes the Conciliation Bill, 4, 22
—— —— praises women's national work, 112
Liberal associations' hostility to women's suffrage, 73
Liberal Men's Association for Women's Suffrage, 73
Lichfield, Bishop of, 75
Local Government Register, 147, 167
London, Bishop of, 149
London School of Medicine for Women, 114
Long, Mr. Walter, 114, 115, 136, 138
Loreburn, Lord, 149
Lyttelton, Hon. Alfred, 45
Lytton, 5, 6, 72, 125, 149
MacAdams, Miss, returned for L.A. of Alberta, 119
Macassey, Sir Lynden, article by, in Quarterly Review, 113
Markham, Miss Violet, 11, 117
Martindale, Dr. Louisa, 24
McKenna, Rt. Hon. R., 24-26, 60
McLaren, Mr. Walter, M.P., 31
McLaren, Mrs. Priscilla, 151
Manners, Lord John, 32
Maternity benefit paid to husbands, 69
Midlothian by-election, 1912, 35
Midwives Act, 1902, 157
—— —— amended, 1918, 158
Militantism, 5, 65, 67, 97
Mill, John Stuart, 32, 153
Milner, Lord, 149
Montagu, Rt. Hon. E., 112
Motor Traffic Legislation, 40-41
Murray, Dr. Flora, 97
Nineteenth Century and After, 81
Norway, women's franchise in, 143
Nurses, registration of, 163, 171
N.U.W.S.S., intrigues in House of Commons against, 24, 26
—— organization of, 54, 55
—— addresses letter to Mr. Asquith on franchise situation, 1916, 127, 8
—— recasts election policy, 29, 30-38, 43
—— changes its name, 155, 160
—— enlarges its objects, 161
—— indignation of, on fiasco of Government Reform Bill, 1913, 50-53
—— action on outbreak of war, 86-105
—— medical units for Russia, 104, 105
N.U.W.W. (now National Council of Women), Hull meeting, 76
O'Brien, Mr. W., support of women's suffrage, 23
Obscene literature, trumped-up charges in House of Commons, 24-26
Observer, conversion of the, 132
Palmer, the Hon. Robert, 81
Palmerston, Viscount, 62
Parliament Act used against women's suffrage, 22
Parliamentary intrigues against women's suffrage, 23, 26, 48-49
Pilgrimage, the, suggested by Mrs. Harley, 54-58
"Posts," the Three, 79, 145
Pott, Miss Gladys, 97
Press support of women's suffrage, rapid growth of, 117, 145
Prothero, Mr. R. (now Lord Earle), on Insurance Act, 69
Punch quoted, 78
Qualifications for Parliamentary Franchise, 122
Quarterly Review, 113
Queen Mary's interest in women's war work, 92
Rackham, Mrs., 61
Rathbone, Miss Eleanor, 131, 147, 155
Redmond Mr. John, 44
Reform Bill, Government, fiasco over, 39-53
Registration (Parliamentary) neglected during the war, 122
Registration of Nurses Act, 163, 171
Revelstoke, Lord, on women's labour, 114
Robertson, Miss Margaret, 61
Royal College of Surgeons, 41
Royaumont, hospital at the Abbaye de, 95, 98, 102
Royden, Miss A. M., 39, 61, 75
Salisbury, the late Marquis of, 32
Scott, Mr. MacCallum, M.P., 11, 12, 21, 81
Scottish women's hospitals, 95-105
Selborne, Earl of, services to suffrage in House of Lords, 72, 125, 149, 151
—— —— praises women's work in agriculture, 113
—— Countess of, 80
Serbian tribute to Mrs. Harley, 59
Sex Disqualification Removal Act, 1919, 163-165
Simon, Sir John, M.P., 32, 48, 134-135
Simpson, Rev. Canon, 57
Speaker, the, 49, 50, 137, 138
Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform, 137
Special Register Bills, 120, 129, 133, 139
Sterling, Miss Frances, 16
St. Paul's, service in, 57
Strachey, Lady, 16
Sweden, women's suffrage in, 31, 32
The Times' opposition to women's suffrage, 4
—— —— —— gradually weakened, 82
—— —— supplement on Pacific Coast of U.S.A., 82
Trades Union support of women's suffrage, 3
Troyes, Scottish women's hospital at, 100
Tullibardine, Marquis of (now Duke of Atholl), 24
Ulster Unionist Council, 74
U.S.A. victories for suffrage, 41, 150
—— questionnaire addressed to, 80-81
Venizelos, M., 163
Villiers, the Hon. Charles, 32
War, outbreak of, in 1914 and women's work, 86-105
Ward, Mrs. Humphry, 11, 41-43, 71, 76-77, 97, 150-151
Waste in Training Camps, 107
Weardale, Lord, 149
Weinberg, Dr., in Royaumont, 102-103
Williams, Mr. Aneurin, M.P., 138
Winchester, Bishop of, 156
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 154
Women's suffrage, a short history of, by Mrs Fawcett, 1
—— —— growing support of, by Press, Pulpit, Stage, etc., 77-85
—— —— victories in House of Commons, 146-148
—— —— victory in House of Lords, 148-153
—— Emancipation (Labour Party) Bill, 1919, 163
Years before and after suffrage compared, 169-172
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