So, You Say I Cant Vote

Synopsis: Women were granted the legal right to vote in Parliamentary elections in the UK in 1918. This right, however, extended only to property-owning, renting or university educated women over the age of thirty. Seven years before this, Frances Connelly, a working woman walked past suffragists protesting outside the polling station in Yeovil, England, to cast her vote in an election. Her vote, and others like it, helped to keep the question in peoples minds -- If one woman can vote, why not all? Frances Connellys name is now largely unknown or forgotten. Her story is told here within the context of other women who voted in England before 1918, the struggles and complexities of the times in which these people lived and the contributions made by working-class women to womens suffrage.

Author: MacLeod, Sheena

Format: Paperback

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Publisher: OMP

Publication Date: 01/01/1800

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