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03200aam a22003978i 4500 001 57BD50108B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161006010101 008 160407s2016 quc b 001 0beng 020 $a 0773548025 (paper) 020 $a 9780773548022 (paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)946766198 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c NLC $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d GSU $d OCLCO $d YDX $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- 055 0 $a HQ1595 M37 $b V45 2016 082 04 $a 324.6/23092 $2 23 100 1 $a Vellacott, Jo, $e author. 245 10 $a From Liberal to Labour with women's suffrage : $b the story of Catherine Marshall / $c Jo Vellacott. 250 $a Second edition. 263 $a 1607 264 1 $a Montreal ; $b McGill-Queen's University Press ; $c 2016. 300 $a xxvi, 518 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Catherine Marshall was a vital figure in the women's suffrage movement in Britain before the First World War. Using her remarkable political skills on behalf of the major non-militant organization, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), she built close connections with major suffragist politicians, leading some, in all three parties, to consider adopting a measure of women's enfranchisement as a party plank. By 1913 Marshall was uniquely placed as a lobbyist, with inside information and sympathetic listeners in every party. Through her the dynamically re-organized NUWSS brought the women's suffrage issue to the fore of public awareness. It pushed the Labour Party to adopt a strong stand on women's suffrage and raised working-class consciousness, re-awakening a long-dormant demand for full adult enfranchisement. Had the general election due in 1915 taken place, NUWSS financial and organizational support for the Labour Party might well have been substantial enough to influence the final results. These impressive achievements were forgotten by the time Catherine Marshall died in 1961. Even recent research on the period has failed to show the full significance of the issue of women's suffrage, much less Marshall's part in the movement. Jo Vellacott's revealing account of Marshall's political work also includes vivid descriptions of a liberal Victorian childhood, a strangely purposeless young adulthood, and the heady experiences of women who, through the awakening of political consciousness, forged a lifestyle to fit their new aspirations."-- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic format. 600 10 $a Marshall, Catherine, $d 1880-1961. 610 20 $a Liberal Party (Great Britain) $x History. 610 20 $a Labour Party (Great Britain) $x History. 650 0 $a Women $x History. $z Great Britain $x History. 650 0 $a Suffragists $z Great Britain $v Biography. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Politics and government $y 1901-1936. 776 1 $a Vellacott, Jo, author. $t From Liberal to Labour with women's suffrage. $b Second edition. $w (CaOONL)20169025098 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20161103023213.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=57BD50108B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search