ABSTRACT
This six-volume collection brings together key documents on women’s suffrage from Britain and the Empire in the century between 1767 and 1867. With a particular focus on voting rights and political representation, the collection includes excerpts of works from renowned writers such as Edmund Burke and John Stuart Mill, as well as rare and insightful texts from less prominent authors. This collection provides a valuable reference to students of various disciplines, including British and imperial history, gender studies, literature, politics, and the history of feminism.
Volume 1; Reflexions on Representation in Parliament (1766) Thoughts on a Parliamentary Reform (1784), Extracts from Letters to the Volunteers of Ireland (1783), extracts from Political Register (1768 and 1769), ‘Mr Burke’s Speech to the Electors of Bristol’ from Mr Edmund Burke*s speeches (1774) 2 extract from Political Disquisitions (1774), extracts from Political Papers (1794-5)
Volume 2: Address of the London Corresponding Society (1793), W. Playfair, Inevitable Consequences of a Reform (1792), G. Philips, The Necessity of a Speedy and Effectual Reform (1792) [G. Tierney], The State of the Representation of England and Wales (1793) N. M ‘Leod, Two Letters from Norman M'Leod (1793) Facts, Reflections and Queries (1792) W. Knox, A Letter to the People of Ireland (1792) General Meeting of Catholic Delegates (1793) Address from the Society of United Irishmen (1794) W. Roscoe, A Letter to Henry Brougham (1811) Address of the Reformers of Fawdon (1819) Leeds Reform Meeting (1819) C. Phillips, Address to the Electors in The County of Sligo (1818) F. Burdett, The Plan of Reform Proposed by Sir Francis Burdett (1809) [T. Harral], The Distresses of the Times (1817) The Smith field Parliament (1819) The Hermit of Marlow [P. B. Shelley], A Proposal for Putting Reform to the Vote (1817)
Volume3 : J. Walsh, extracts from Popular Opinions on Parliamentary Reform (1831) W. Carpenter, An Address to the 'Working Class (1831) Extract from The Speech of Lord Brougham (1831) Extract from Letters to a Friend (1831) W. Cobbett, extract from Cobbett’s Manchester Lectures (1832) G. Grote, extract from Essentials of Parliamentary Reform (1832) A. Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, Wellington’s Speech on the Reform Bill (1831) The First Batch (1832) Junius Redivivus, What the People Ought to Do (1832) Every Man his Own Law Maker (1835) Extracts from Election Broadsides of 1832 from Edinburgh (1832)
Volume 4: C. Wetherell, Speech against the Municipal Corporation Bill (1835) 1 G. Grote, Speech on the Ballot, February 1838 (1838) G. Grote, Speech on the Ballot, March 1837 (1837) G. Grote, Speech Moving for the Introduction of the Ballot (1833) S. Smith, Ballot (1839) Rights and Condition of Women (1841) H. Francis, Lord Teynham, Extract from How it Must Work (1833) Dialogue between Mr. Doubtful and a Radical (1839) A. McKay, Electoral Districts (1848) Extract from The End in View (1848) H. Reid, extract from What Should be Done for the People? (1848) B. Disraeli, Speech on Mr. Hume's Motion on National Representation (1867) J. Hume, On Parliamentary Reform (1850) Parliamentary Reform. The Educational Franchise (1853) Scrutator, A Few Remarks on the Ballot (1857) J. S. Mill, extract from Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform (1859) A Norwich Operative, A Word to the Masses (n.d.) A Norwich Operative, A Voice from the Millions! (n.d.)
Volume 5 : R. Lowe, Extracts from Speeches and Letters on Reform (1867) B. Disraeli, Speech on the Reform Bill (1867) The Final Reform Bill of Earl Russell (1866) E. Baines, Speech of Edward Baines (1864) W. E. Gladstone, ‘Speech on the Bill of Mr. Baines’, from Speeches on Parlimentary Reform (1866) G. C. Brodrick, ‘The Utilitarian Argument Against Reform’, from Essays on Reform (1867) A. V. Dicey, ‘The Balance of Classes’, from Essays on Reform (1867) C. H. Pearson, ‘On the Working of Australian Institutions’, from Essays on Reform (1867) An Old Colonist, Universal Suffrage in Australia (1867) E. Beales, Speech of Edmond Beales (1865) The Yorkshire Reform Conference (1862) C. Bradlaugh, Reform or Revolution (1867) E. Jones, Democracy Vindicated (1867) Reform Meeting in the Guildhall (1866)
Volume 6: G. J. Holyoake, A New Defence of the Ballot (1868) T. Perronet Thompson, Catechism on the Ballot (1860) J. T. Ball, Extract from Extension of the Franchise (1872) C. Buxton, Self-Government for London (1869) J. E. Fitzgerald, The Native Policy of New Zealand (1862) M. G. Fawcett, Fitzjames Stephen on the Position of Women (1873) E. M. L[ynch], A Few Words on Women's Suffrage (1873) Meeting of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage (1873) Justitia [Mrs H. D. Pochin], The Right of Women (1855) Edinburgh Branch of the National Society for Women's Suffrage (1868) Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage (1869) Women's Suffrage: Great Meeting in Edinburgh (1871) F. W. Newman, A Lecture on Women's Suffrage (1869) F. O. Morris, The Rights and Wrongs of Women (1870) Ninon [Anna] Kingsford, The Admission of Women to the Parliamentary Franchise (1868)
