Scattered articles

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 106 7EHM/01
  • Former Reference
      GB 106 H-M 1
  • Dates of Creation
      1872-1899
  • Physical Description
      2 folders

Scope and Content

Scrapbook. Includes press cuttings from Woman (later The Social Review), Women's Work, Animal World, Women's Suffrage Journal. Items relate mainly but not entirely to women's suffrage and women's rights, many of them written by Helen Blackburn.

The scrapbook contained the following inserts:

1) Press cutting from The Woman's Suffrage Journal, 1 Feb 1878 pp.21-22, inserted at pp. 14-15

2) Press cutting: 'Womanhood suffrage a danger to liberty', from The Liberty Review, inserted at pp. 38-39

3) Press cuttings, articles and leaflets: The Englishwoman's Review, Oct 1874, 'The pursuits of women'; 'Leaflet No. 6, The Factory and Workshops' Bill'; 'Sketches from the past', from the Women's Suffrage Journal 1 Sep 1888; 'Women and the franchise', letter to The Westminster Gazette, 6 Oct; Untitled article signed by 'HB', on the parallels between the Roman and British empires; 'A modern star chamber', from The Englishwoman's Review, 15 Oct 1897, inserted at pp. 40-51

4) Press cuttings: 'Factory and Workshops Bill', and 'Ireland', inserted at pp. 44-45