anti-suffrage

• “Using this loophole in the justice system, the suffragettes increased their militant campaigns, including a devastating arson campaign during which attempts were made to burn the houses of anti-suffrage MPs, railway stations, golf courses, cricket fields and racecourse stands.”

  Shoulder to Shoulder | Edwardian Promenade

• “Moving their headquarters from Manchester to London, by 1908 the suffragettes had launched an all-out war for the cause, targeting those MPs notoriously anti-suffrage like Prime Minister H.H. Asquith and Winston Churchill.”

  Shoulder to Shoulder | Edwardian Promenade

• “Because of their peculiar status, many of these socially - and politically - powerful women were anti-suffrage, feeling that women did not require the vote because they had always wielded political power.”

  Daily Life in the British Parliament: The Political Hostess | Edwardian Promenade

• “She reminded me how American women won the right to vote in 1920 because of one letter – a letter written by the mother of an anti-suffrage legislator – and she had been swayed by the arguments of grassroots suffragists.”

  The DiMasi indictment

• “If he's right, it's time for a male anti-suffrage movement, methinks.”

  The Drama of Empty Numbers

• “Hitch quotes Kipling's famous poem, The Female of the Species, in support of his thesis that women aren't funny, but that wasn't how Kipling intended it; he wrote it as an anti-suffrage polemic, arguing that women shouldn't vote.”

  "Why Women Aren't Funny."

• “Helen Kendrick Johnson, author of the influential anti-suffrage book, Woman and the Republic, which did a lot to delay women's' suffrage.”

  ~ Angry Bear

• “After all the parliamentary maneuvering, vote trading, and the devastating defection of Speaker Seth Walker of Lebanon, Tennessee, to the anti-suffrage side, debate began on Wednesday, August 18.”

  A Legacy Of Leadership: Tennessee's Pivotal Role in Granting All American Women The Vote

• “Did you ever hear any anti-suffrage sentiment at Winthrop?”

  Oral History Interview with Marguerite Tolbert, June 14, 1974. Interview G-0062. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

• “Education of Women -- an anti-suffrage organisation -- said that "woman suffrage, if realised, would be the death-blow of domestic life and happiness" (Nov. 2, 1909).”

  A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.

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