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As will become clearer later on, suffragists generally pursued parliamentary and gradualist approaches to gaining the vote, and a group of their organisations was the National Union of Women Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). Some suffragettes came to despair of this route, and became more militant, in the organisation called the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) .
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Lane 1979.
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See for instance, Hendrick 2003 on child welfare and Hilton and Hirsch on education.
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Dyhouse 1989, chapter 2.
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Rhoda Garrett was a cousin of Millicent Fawcett, leader of the NUWSS (Crawford, p. 247).
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For instance, Dyhouse 1981.
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See Chodorow and Contratto 1982.
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Qvortrup 1985.
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Shamgar-Handelman 1994.
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Smith D 1987.
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Mayall 2002, chapter 6.
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For full discussion of this topic see Cunningham 1991, especially chapters 6, 7 and 8.
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Maclure 1970, pp. 22–23.
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J. Harris 1994, p. 45, notes that of children born in 1901–1911, 80 per cent were born in towns and cities; and in 1911, out of a national population of 45 million, 7 million lived in Greater London.
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Paul Thompson’s exhaustive study (1978) of oral history is especially daunting.
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Burnett 1994.
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Hendrick 2008.
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Jameson 1984, p. 16.
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Lee 1976. This Longman edition includes Lee’s valuable three-page essay on writing autobiography.
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Lee 1976, pp. 40–41.
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Steedman 1986, Part One: Stories.
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Steedman 1986, Part One: Stories, p. 6.
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Lee, p. 220.
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Kennedy 2014, chapter 2.
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Maclure 1970, p. 108.
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Scannell 1974, p. 57.
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Scannell 1974, p. 57.
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This school is now called Gainsborough Primary School, and it still operates in the three-decker building, dated 1899, on Berkshire Road, Hackney.
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Fisher, presenting his education bill in 1917. See Van der Eyken 1973, p. 222.
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Maclure 1970, pp. 95 and 109.
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