Ladies Elect Women in English Local Government 1865-1914 |
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| Author:
| Hollis, Patricia |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-822699-4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1987 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $85.00 |
Book Description:
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Based on records of over twenty towns and ten rural districts, this pioneering study examines the women of late Victorian and Edwardian England who were elected to local district councils, school boards, and poor law boards half a century before suffragettes fought for the right to parliamentary vote.
Based on records of over twenty towns and ten rural districts, this pioneering study examines the women of late Victorian and Edwardian England who were elected to local district councils, school boards, and poor law boards half a century before suffragettes fought for the right to parliamentary vote.