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[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Speech of the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P. in the Debate on the Second Reading of the Married Women's Property Bill in the House of Commons, June 10th, 1868.

Author: 
Robert Lowe, M.P. [Married Women's Property Bill, 1868; female suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
['Frederick Bell & Co., Steam Printers, King's Road, Chelsea.'] [1868.]
£50.00

4pp., 8vo. Bifolium with drophead title. In fair condition, aged and worn, disbound, with chipping and damage at spine. Three copies on COPAC.

[Female suffrage; printed handbill.] The Rev. F. D. Maurice on Female Suffrage. From the "Spectator" of March 5, 1870.

Author: 
Rev. F. D. Maurice [John Frederick Denison Maurice (1805-1872)] [The Spectator, London.] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Without place or printer. [1870.]
£150.00

2pp., 8vo. Handbill with drophead title. Dated at end 'Cambridge, March 1. | F. D. MAURICE.' In good condition, lightly-aged, disbound. No copy traced on either COPAC or OCLC WorldCat.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Women and Politics. Reprinted from 'Macmillan's Magazine.'

Author: 
Rev. Canon Kingsley [Charles Kingsley] [The London National Society for Women's Suffrage] [Victorian feminism; women's rights]
Publication details: 
Published by the London National Society for Women's Suffrage. London: Printed by Spottiswoode & Co., New-street Square, Farringdon Street and 30 Parliament Street, Westminster. 1869.
£50.00

24pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] The Injustice of the English Law as it bears on the Relationship of Husband and Wife. An Essay Read in the Law School at Cambridge in November, 1867.

Author: 
Rev. Alfred Dewes, D.D., LL.D., Vicar of Christ Church, Pendlebury [The Contemporary Review, London; women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
'Reprinted, by the kind permission of the Proprietors, from "THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW."' ['Frederick Bell & Co., Steam Printers, King's Road, Chelsea.'] Undated [circa 1867].
£120.00

16pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Only one copy on COPAC, at the British Library. There was a second edition, published by Virtue & Co., London, in 1874.

[Printed item] The Injustice of the English Law as it bears on the Relationship of Husband and Wife. An Essay Read in the Law School at Cambridge in November, 1867. Reprinted, by the kind permission of the Proprietors, from 'THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW.'

Author: 
Rev. Alfred Dewes, D.D., LL.D., Vicar of Christ Church, Pendlebury [Married Women's Property Question; The Contemporary Review, London] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Second Edition, 1874. Frederick Bell & Co., Steam Printers, King's Road, Chelsea.
£120.00

16pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Dated at end to 'MARCH, 1874'. (Only one copy of the first edition traced, at the British Library, and misdated to circa 1868, when in fact also published in 1874.)

[Female suffrage; presentation copy of printed pamphlet.] On the Education of Women. A Paper read by Mrs. William Grey, at the Meeting of the Society of Arts, May 31st, 1871. With an Appendix.

Author: 
Mrs. William Grey [Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey (1816-1906)] [the Society of Arts, London; the education of women; women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
London: William Ridgway, 169, Piccadilly, W. 1871.
£120.00

64pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Inscribed at head of title-page: 'From the Author'. Four copies on COPAC.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Is the Exercise of the Suffrage Unfeminine? Published by the London National Society for Women's Suffrage.

Author: 
Mrs. William Grey [Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey (1816-1906)] [The London National Society for Women's Suffrage] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
[The London National Society for Women's Suffrage.] Printed by Spottiswoode & Co., New-street Square, London. 1870.
£180.00

12pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. With a few pencil annotations. A total of five copies on COPAC and OCLC WorldCat. No copy on market currently.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Enfranchisement of Women. Reprinted from the 'WESTMINSTER REVIEW' for July, 1851.

Author: 
Mrs. Stuart Mill [Harriet Taylor Mill] [The Westminster Review, London] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
London: Trübner and Co., 60, Paternoster Row. 1868.
£500.00

22pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly aged and spotted, no wraps, disbound. COPAC and WorldCat hard to work out but possibly one copy of this edition in any library (Bishopsgate).

[Female suffrage.] Printed handbill by the London National Society for Women's Suffrage, discussing five questions including 'Why should Women demand the Franchise?' and 'What Public benefits would be the result of giving the Franchise to Women?'

Author: 
Mrs. P. A. Taylor [Clementia Taylor (1810–1908; née Doughty)] and Miss C. A. Biggs [Caroline Ashurst Biggs (1840-1889)], Secretaries, London National Society for Women's Suffrage
Publication details: 
[London National Society for Women's Suffrage.] Undated [circa 1870].
£160.00

2pp., 12mo. Single leaf headed 'LONDON NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.' In fair condition, lightly-aged, disbound, with loss to fore-edge.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Electoral Disabilities of Women. A Lecture delivered at the New Hall, Tavistock, March 11th, 1871.

Author: 
Milicent Garrett Fawcett [The Bristol & West of England Society for Women's Suffrage] [Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Printed for the Bristol & West of England Society for Women's Suffrage. By the Tavistock Printing Company, Limited, Tavistock. 1871.
£350.00

23 + [1]pp., 12mo. In good condition, no wraps, disbound. Only one copy traced on either COPAC or OCLC WorldCat, at the London School of Economics.

[Female suffrage; pamphlet printed by Emily Faithfull.] Experience of Factory Life: Being a Record of Fourteen Years' Work at Mr. Courtauld's Silk Mill at Halstead, in Essex. ['Third Edition, much enlarged, with a Preface by Bessie Rayner Parkes.' ]

Author: 
Mary Merryweather [Bessie Rayner Parkes; Emily Faithfull and Co., Victoria Press, London; Samuel Courtauld's silk mill, Halstead, Essex] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Third edition. London: Printed and Published by Emily Faithfull and Co., Victoria Press, (for the Employment of Women,) Great Coram Street, W.C. 1862.
£250.00

xxi + 79 + [1] + 2pp., 12mo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Ends with two pages of 'Works published by Emily Faithfull and Co., Victoria Press, 9, Great Coram Street, W.C. | Agent: - John F. Shaw & Son, 48, Paternoster Row, E.C.' No copies of the previous two editions traced. Three copies of this third edition on COPAC. No copy on market currently.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Are we to have Education for our Middle-Class Girls? Or, The History of Camden Collegiate Schools.

Author: 
Mary Gurney [National Union for Improving the Education of Women of all Classes; Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey; Camden Collegiate Schools] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
London: William Ridgway, 169, Piccadilly, W. Second edition, 1872. ['Series published under the sanction of the National Union for Improving the Education of Women of all Classes. No. II.']
£90.00

24pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Preface by Maria G. Grey, President of the Central Committee. Noi copies on market currently.

[Women's suffrage; printed handbill] Pamphlet headed 'Married Women's Property Committee', containing transcript of letter from Secretary Elizabeth C. Wolstenholme and 'Directions for preparing a Petition to the House of Commons'.

Author: 
Mary C. Wolstenholme, Secretary, Married Women's Property Committee [John Hinde Palmer; female suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
[Married Women's Property Committee.]
£100.00

[2]p., 8vo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly-aged, disbound. Wolstenholme's letter, dated '63, FINBOROUGH ROAD, S.W., | February 15th, 1873.', on the recto of the first leaf; and the 'DIRECTIONS' on the recto of the second. The letter begins: 'The "Married Women's Property Act (1870) Amendment Bill" No. I, introduced by Mr. Hinde Palmer, stands as the first order of the day for Wednesday next, the 19th inst., and will, if it passes the second reading on that day, be put down for committee on Friday, the 21st inst.' No copy traced, either on COPAC or on OCLC WorldCat.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Speech of the Right Hon. Lord Coleridge in the House of Lords on the Married Women's Property Act (1870) Amendment Bill, June 21st, 1877.

Author: 
Lord Coleridge [John Duke Coleridge (1820-1894), 1st Baron Coleridge] [Married Women's Property Committee; Alexander Ireland, Manchester printer]
Publication details: 
Printed for the Married Women's Property Committee. Printed by A. Ireland & Co., Pall Mall, Manchester. 1877.
£90.00

12pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Only one copy on COPAC, at the London School of Economics, and none on OCLC WorldCat.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Legislative Restrictions on the Industry of Women, considered from the Women's Point of View.

Author: 
Josephine E. Butler, Ada Smith, Elizabeth C. Wolstenholme, Dinah Goodall, Emilie A. Venturi [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
'Matthews and Sons, Steam Printers, 54, Berwick Street, London, W.' [1874.]
£150.00

18 + [1]pp., 8vo. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, no wraps, disbound. Authors named at end as: 'JOSEPHINE E. BUTLER, Liverpool. | ADA SMITH, (Factory Worker,) Nottingham. | ELIZABETH C. WOLSTENHOLME, Congleton. | DINAH GOODALL, (Factory Worker,) Leeds. | EMILIE A. VENTURI, London.' Apparently no copy on market currently.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Speech of John Stuart Mill, M.P. on the Admission of Women to the Electoral Franchise. Spoken in the House of Commons, May 20th, 1867.

Author: 
John Stuart Mill, M.P. [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
London: Trübner and Co., 60, Paternoster Row. 1867. [Printed by J. E. Taylor and Co., Little Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields.]
£125.00

18pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Number of copies in libraries.

[Female suffrage.] Collection of ten extracts from Victorian magazines on 'the woman question', the topics including domestic violence, factory labour, female employment, married women's property.

Author: 
Jessie Boucherett; Henry Thomas Buckle; Matilda M. Hays; H. R. Droop [women's suffrage; Victorian domestic violence; factory labour; female employment; married women's property]
Publication details: 
London and Edinburgh: Fraser's Magazine; Saturday Review; North British Review; Daily News; Cornhill Magazine; Englishwoman's Review. Between 1856 and 1870.
£320.00

The ten items disbound from volumes from the collections of Robert Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), 1st Marquess of Crewe; the Cavendish Bentinck Library, London; and the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage. London. The first nine items in good overall condition, lightly aged and worn; the last in fair condition, with leaves separated, and chipping to extremities. The ten items are as follows: ONE. Henry Thomas Buckle - The influence of women on the progress of knowledge. On pp.396-407 of Fraser's Magazine, April 1858.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Speech of Jacob Bright, Esq., M.P. on the Electoral Disabilities of Women Delivered in Edinburgh January 17, 1870.

Author: 
Jacob Bright, Esq., M.P. [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Printed by Spottiswoode & Co., New-street Square, London. 1870.
£120.00

12pp., 12mo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Two copies on COPAC and two copies on OCLC WorldCat.

[Female suffrage; pamphlet printed by Emily Faithfull & Co., Victoria Press.] A Few Words on the Woman's Franchise Question.

Author: 
James Thornton Hoskins, B.A. [Emily Faithfull & Co., Victoria Press, London] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
London: Emily Faithfull, Printer and Publisher in ordinary to Her Majesty. Victoria Press, Princes Street, Hanover Square. [1871.]
£180.00

40pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. No copies on market curently, c. six copies listed on COPAC.

[Female suffrage; pamphlet printed by Emily Faithfull & Co., Victoria Press.] A Few Words on the Woman's Franchise Question.

Author: 
James Thornton Hoskins, B.A. [Emily Faithfull & Co., Victoria Press, London] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
London: Emily Faithfull, Printer and Publisher in ordinary to Her Majesty. Victoria Press, Princes Street, Hanover Square. [1871.]
Upon request

40pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Legislative Restrictions on Women's Labour. Reprinted by kind permission from the "Englishwoman's Review."

Author: 
Jessie Boucherett [Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights, London] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
[Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights, London.] [Frederick Bell & Co., Steam Printers, King's Road, Chelsea.] No date [1873 or 1874].
£220.00

12pp., 8vo. In fair condition, aged and chipped, no wraps, disbound. No copy at the British Library, and only two copies on COPAC: one at the LSE, dated to 1874; the other at Bristol University, dated to 1874.

[Female suffrage; printed anti-feminist pamphlet.] Woman: And Her Failings.

Author: 
Henry Tyrrell [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
London: Published by Holyoake & Co., 147, Fleet Street. 1857. [John Watts, Printer, 147, Fleet Street.]
£150.00

16pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Tyrrell's attitude is patronising, to say the least. 'It is not that our girls and young women are uneducated; the mischief consists in the fatal fact that they are over-educated, as the word is understood, or misunderstood, by those who have the charge of them.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Government Factory Bill. Speech on the Second Reading of the Bill, June 11th, 1874.

Author: 
Henry Fawcett, Esq., M.P. [Government Factory Bill, 1874; Alexander Ireland, Manchester printer; women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Manchester: A. Ireland & Co. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. Dated on p.4: 'OFFICES OF THE ASSOCIATION OF FACTORY OCCUPIERS, | 96, KING STREET, MANCHESTER. | August, 1874.'
£90.00

26pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. One copy on COPAC, at the BL, and two copies on OCLC WorldCat.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Speech of Mr. G. Shaw Lefevre, M.P., on bringing in "The Bill to amend the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women." In the House of Commons, April 21st, 1868.

Author: 
G. Shaw Lefevre, M.P. [the Committee in support of the Married Women's Property Bill; Alexander Ireland, Manchester printer] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Manchester: A. Ireland & Co., Printers, Pall Mall. 1868. [On reverse of title: 'Printed, by permission, for the Committee in support of the Married Women's Property Bill.']
£90.00

12pp., 8vo. In fair condition, aged and worn, no wraps, disbound, with pencil annotations to title-page. Copies listed on COPAC etc

[Printed pamphlet.] Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors. Is the Classification sound? A Discussion on the Laws concerning the Property of Married Women. [Reprinted, by Messrs. Longmans' permission, from Fraser's Magazine, December, 1868.]

Author: 
Frances Power Cobbe [Alexander Ireland, Manchester printer; Fraser's Magazine; Longman & Co] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Manchester: A. Ireland and Co., Pall Mall. 1869.
£180.00

27pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Several copies on CoOPAC, none of this first edition on the market currently.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet of 'anti-feminist polemic'.] Pro Aris et Focis.

Author: 
Fanny Aikin-Kortright [Francis Aikin Kortright (1821-1900), novelist] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
London: Printed by Yates and Alexander, Symonds Inn, Chancery Lane, E.C. [1869.]
£250.00

viii + 71pp., 8vo. No author is given on the title-page, but bound in with the pamphlet is the pink front wrap, on which Aikin-Kortright is named and the pamphlet is stated to be 'Printed for Private Circulation'. Dedication (p.iii) to 'MRS. S. C. HALL'. Preface (p.v) dated from 'Eldon Road, Kensington, December, 1869.' Inscribed at the head of the front wrap: 'With the author's respectful compliments.' In good condition, lightly-aged, disbound. In addition to her work as a novelist, Fanny Aikin-Kortright is described by the Orlando Project as a publisher of 'anti-feminist polemic'.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Women's Wrongs.

Author: 
F. W. Newman [Francis William Newman (1805-1897), younger brother of Cardinal John Henry Newman], Secretary, Bristol and Clifton Branch of the National Society for Women's Suffrage
Publication details: 
Published for the Bristol and Clifton Branch of the National Society for Women's Suffrage. ['L. Arrowsmith, Printer, Quay Street, Bristol.'] Undated [1870].
£280.00

4pp., 8vo. Bifolium with drophead title. In fair condition, lightly-aged, disbound with slight damage to spine. Newman poses the question: 'Why has our law been so unjust to women? - Because woman never had a voice in the making of it, and men, as a class, have not realized the oppression of women as a class.

[Female labour in Victorian factories; printed pamphlet.] Lord Brougham on Factory Legislation. Reprinted, by kind permission, from the "Examiner" of May 2nd, 1874.

Author: 
F. H. A. Hardcastle; Lord Brougham [Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868)] [Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights; Anthony John Mundella, Factory Bill, 1874]
Publication details: 
Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights. ['Frederick Bell & Co., Steam Printers, King's Road, Chelsea.'] [1874.]
£50.00

4pp., 8vo. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, disbound, with evidence of side stitching and damage at foot of spine.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Woman's Work with special Reference to Industrial Employment, a Paper read by Emily Faithfull, at the Meeting of the Society of Arts, March 29th, 1871.

Author: 
Emily Faithfull [proprietor of the Victoria Press, Princes Street, Hanover Square, W.] [The Society of Arts, London; women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
London: Victoria Press, Princes Street, Hanover Square, W. 1871.
£400.00

17 + [2] pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Recto of last leaf carries advertisements for two Victoria Press books: 'Te Deum Laudamus, illuminated by Esther Faithfull Fleet' and the second edition of Emily Faithfull's 'Novelette' 'Change upon Change'. The reverse of the leaf carries an advertisement for the Victoria Magazine. No copy on COPAC, and two copies on OCLC WorldCat.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] French Silk Manufactures and the Industrial Employment of Women. Reprinted from "Good Words," February 1879.

Author: 
Edward J. Watherston, F.S.S. [Edward James Watherston (1839-1904), London goldsmith and jeweller] ['Good Words', London periodical; women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
'London | Dryden Press - J. Davy and Sons, 137, Long Acre.' [1879.]
£100.00

23pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Three copies on COPAC, but none at the BL.

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