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1. Quaker Women

   Personal Life, Memory and Radicalism in the Lives of Women Friends, 1780–1930

   By Sandra Stanley Holton

   Series: Women's and Gender History

   One nineteenth-century commentator noted the ‘public’ character of Quaker women as signalling a new era in female history. This study examines such claims through the story of middle-class women Friends from among the kinship circle created by the marriage in 1839 of Elizabeth Priestman and the...

   Published March 29th 2007 by Routledge
2. Votes For Women

   Edited by Sandra Holton, Dr June Purvis, June Purvis

   Series: Women's and Gender History

   Votes for Women provides an innovative re-examination of the suffrage movement, presenting new perspectives which challenge the existing literature on this subject. This fascinating book charts the history of the movement in Britain from the nineteenth century to the postwar period, assessing...

   Published December 15th 1999 by Routledge