In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Crawford provides the first survey of women's suffrage campaigns across the British Isles and Ireland, focusing on local campaigns and activists. Through a study of the grass roots activists involved in the movement, Crawford provides a counter to studies that have focused on the politics and personalities that dominated at a national level, and reveals that, far from providing merely passive backing to the cause, women in the regions were engaged in the movement as active participants. Attempts to involve women of all classes at a local level were...

This widely acclaimed book has been described by History Today as a 'landmark in the study of the women's movement'. It is the only comprehensive reference work to bring together in one volume the wealth of information available on the women's movement.

Drawing on national and local archival sources, the book contains over 400 biographical entries and more than 800 entries on societies in England, Scotland and Wales. Easily accessible and rigorously cross-referenced, this invaluable resource covers not only the political developments of the campaign but provides insight...

Before you read this book you better have a sweet tea or mint julep close by, you'll need something, because this book is steaming hot. Olivia is still learning about what men want but her best girlfriend Betty has been married, divorced, loves a carefree life and she is more than willing to help Olivia learn about men. Olivia goes from a young woman, just out of finishing school, to a worldly woman who lives a life with the super rich. Will she learn the lessons needed to keep up with the sexually charged super rich lifestyle she is thrust in or will she burn out and be thrown away?