WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE: A SHORT HISTORY OF AGREAT MOVEMENT
WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE
A SHORT HISTORY OF AGREAT MOVEMENT
By MILLICENT GARRETTFAWCETT, LL.D.
PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE SOCIETIES
LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK
67 LONG ACRE, W.C., AND EDINBURGH
NEW YORK: THE DODGE PUBLISHING CO.
It is not to be thought of that the flood
Of British freedom, which to the open sea
Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity
Hath flowed "with pomp of waters unwithstood"—
Road by which all might come and go that would,
And bear out freights of worth to foreign lands;
That this most famous stream in bogs and sands
Should perish, and to evil and to good
Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung
Armoury of the invincible knights of old:
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake—the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held. In everything we're sprung
Of earth's first blood, have titles manifold.
—W. Wordsworth.
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WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE
CHAPTER I
THE BEGINNINGS
We suffragists have no cause to be ashamed of thefounders of our movement—
"In everything we're sprung
Of earth's first blood, have titles manifold."
Mary Wollstonecraft[1] started the demand of womenfor political liberty in England, Condorcet in France,[2]and the heroic group of anti-slavery agitators in theUnited States. It is true that Horace Walpole calledMary Wollstonecraft "a hyena in petticoats." Butthis proves nothing except his profound ignorance ofher character and aims. Have we not in our own timeheard the ladies who first joined the Primrose Leaguedescribed by an excited politician as "filthy witches"?The epithet of course was as totally removed from anyrelation to the facts as that which Horace Walpoleapplied to Mary Wollstonecraft. William Godwin'stouching memoir of his wife, Mr. Kegan Paul's WilliamGodwin: his Friends and Contemporaries, and Mrs.Pennell's Biography show Mary Wollstonecraft as awoman of exceptionally pure and exalted character.[6]Her sharp wits had been sharpened by every sort ofpersonal misfortune; they enabled her to pierce throughall shams and pretences, but they never caused her tolower her high sense of duty; they never embitteredher or caused her to waver in her allegiance to thepieties of domestic life. Her husband wrote of hersoon after her death, "She was a worshipper of domesticlife." If there is anything in appearance, her facein the picture in the National Portrait Gallery speaksfor her. Southey wrote of her, that of all the lions ofthe day whom he had seen "her face was the best,infinitely the best."
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