Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911

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Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911

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Women's National Anti-Suffrage League organizing meeting

CREATED/PUBLISHED

London, England: London Times, July 21, 1908

NOTES

On verso: London Times editorial urges women who don't want the vote to make their opinions know to government by organization and agitation; believes that women can contribute at municipal level, but that only men should govern and defend the nation

Reports organizing meeting of national anti-suffrage league, chaired by Lady Jersey; Manifesto and constitution printed as adopted; list of supporters including Lords, Ladies and MPs; Mary Ward spoke of urgent developments that required immediate counteraction: Women's Parliamentary Enfranchisement Bill had passed House with large majority; Fawcett procession and intolerable noise of Women's Social and Political Union

SUBJECTS

England-anti-suffrage
England-municipal suffrage
England-parliamentary suffrage
Haversham, Lady
Jersey, Lady
London Times
Ward, Mrs. Mary A. (Mrs. Humphrey) (1851-1920)
Woman's National Anti-Suffrage League
England--London

MEDIUM

clipping

CALL NUMBER

JK1881 .N357 sec. XVI, no. 3-9 NAWSA Coll

PART OF

Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911; Scrapbook 6; page 84; page 85 and 10 unnumbered pages blank

REPOSITORY

Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Washington, D.C. 20540

DIGITAL ID

rbcmil scrp4008001
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbcmil.scrp4008001

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