1931, ISBN: 5724f6ab50178a74e8039d0a0c8037f4

[SC: 11.51], [PU: London, Longmans Green and Co. 1931], First edition. From the library of noted suffragette Edith How-Martyn, with a note tipped in on "Suffragette Club" notepaper statin… More...

[SC: 11.51], [PU: London, Longmans Green and Co. 1931], First edition. From the library of noted suffragette Edith How-Martyn, with a note tipped in on "Suffragette Club" notepaper stating "Please return to Edith How-Martyn, Parliament Mansions, Westminster SW1". How-Martyn is referenced twice in the index and she has made manuscript corrections to the entry on p. 216. She has also made manuscript corrections on pp. 139, 141, 228, 230, 239, 293, 294, and 307. 8vo., sometime rebound in green cloth with paper label on spine. Tipped onto the endpapers are contemporary reviews of the book. Several pages have been dog-eared and there are signs of off setting from the newspaper reviews onto the half-title. It seems likely that this copy was rebound after much use by its owner. Also loosely inserted is a sheet of "Suffragette Fellowship" headed letter paper with Edith How-Martyn noted as founder. How-Martyn's suffrage career began in the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), which she joined after going to a meeting. The women present 'were like a revelation to me. For the first time I felt I had met women who were strong and self-reliant My imagination was fired'. She resigned her post at Westfield College to devote the whole of her time to the WSPU. She first spoke in public in the deputation to Asquith on 21 June 1906, and was one of the first women to be imprisoned that year. In 1907, however, disillusioned by the WSPU's undemocratic structure, she and others founded the Women's Freedom League (WFL), a non-violent, militant organization. How-Martyn became a leading strategist at the height of the suffrage campaign and was unanimously appointed honorary secretary of the League. However disliking Mrs Despard's authoritarian style of leadership, she retired on health grounds as head of the WFL's political and militant department in April 1912. In 1918 How-Martyn was one of the first women parliamentary candidates, standing as independent (liberal) in Hendon, Middlesex. She was elected as the first woman councillor in Middlesex county council in 1919 and served for three years. How-Martyn continued to debate suffrage issues, and in 1927 she wrote that she agreed with both sides in the dispute between new and old feminism within the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (NUSEC). She shared Mrs Abbott's definition of equality and feminism, yet, as one anxious to realize this equality, 'I soon find myself ranged as an ardent supporter of Miss Eleanor Rathbone' (Time and Tide, 218). In 1928 she founded the Suffragette Fellowship with Lilian Lenton, to preserve memories of the fight for women's suffrage; its records have provided much of the primary source material for the historiography of the Edwardian suffragettes., Books<

1931, ISBN: 5724f6ab50178a74e8039d0a0c8037f4

[SC: 11.7], [PU: London, Longmans Green and Co. 1931], First edition. From the library of noted suffragette Edith How-Martyn, with a note tipped in on "Suffragette Club" notepaper stating… More...

[SC: 11.7], [PU: London, Longmans Green and Co. 1931], First edition. From the library of noted suffragette Edith How-Martyn, with a note tipped in on "Suffragette Club" notepaper stating "Please return to Edith How-Martyn, Parliament Mansions, Westminster SW1". How-Martyn is referenced twice in the index and she has made manuscript corrections to the entry on p. 216. She has also made manuscript corrections on pp. 139, 141, 228, 230, 239, 293, 294, and 307. 8vo., sometime rebound in green cloth with paper label on spine. Tipped onto the endpapers are contemporary reviews of the book. Several pages have been dog-eared and there are signs of off setting from the newspaper reviews onto the half-title. It seems likely that this copy was rebound after much use by its owner. Also loosely inserted is a sheet of "Suffragette Fellowship" headed letter paper with Edith How-Martyn noted as founder. How-Martyn's suffrage career began in the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), which she joined after going to a meeting. The women present 'were like a revelation to me. For the first time I felt I had met women who were strong and self-reliant My imagination was fired'. She resigned her post at Westfield College to devote the whole of her time to the WSPU. She first spoke in public in the deputation to Asquith on 21 June 1906, and was one of the first women to be imprisoned that year. In 1907, however, disillusioned by the WSPU's undemocratic structure, she and others founded the Women's Freedom League (WFL), a non-violent, militant organization. How-Martyn became a leading strategist at the height of the suffrage campaign and was unanimously appointed honorary secretary of the League. However disliking Mrs Despard's authoritarian style of leadership, she retired on health grounds as head of the WFL's political and militant department in April 1912. In 1918 How-Martyn was one of the first women parliamentary candidates, standing as independent (liberal) in Hendon, Middlesex. She was elected as the first woman councillor in Middlesex county council in 1919 and served for three years. How-Martyn continued to debate suffrage issues, and in 1927 she wrote that she agreed with both sides in the dispute between new and old feminism within the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (NUSEC). She shared Mrs Abbott's definition of equality and feminism, yet, as one anxious to realize this equality, 'I soon find myself ranged as an ardent supporter of Miss Eleanor Rathbone' (Time and Tide, 218). In 1928 she founded the Suffragette Fellowship with Lilian Lenton, to preserve memories of the fight for women's suffrage; its records have provided much of the primary source material for the historiography of the Edwardian suffragettes., Books<

1931, ISBN: 5724f6ab50178a74e8039d0a0c8037f4

Longmans, Green and Co. 1931. FIRST EDITION, ex-library, damage to boards but a perfect candidate for a nice rebind; super octavbo black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, xii+631pp, illus.… More...

Longmans, Green and Co. 1931. FIRST EDITION, ex-library, damage to boards but a perfect candidate for a nice rebind; super octavbo black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, xii+631pp, illus., G+ (external hinges of spine cracked, splits to middle of spine also; moderate to heavy scuffing and rubbing to boards; within, ex libris to front pastedown, library stamps to prelims (fep, half title, rear pastedown), light tanning and occasional sl. foxing), Longmans, Green and Co. 1931, 0<