Books of Suffragists

  • Women's Suffrage in America
    By Elizabeth Frost-Knappman, Kathryn Cullen-DuPont

    Pugh, Sarah (October 6,1800–August 1,1884) anti-slavery advocate,schoolteacher Pugh first took up the radical Garrisonian abolitionist cause after hearing George Thompson speak in 1835. She joined the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery ...

  • How Women Got the Vote: The Story of the Women's Suffrage Movement in America
    By Ida Husted Harper

    Originally published in "Encyclopedia Americana" in 1920, this paperback edition tells the story of the women's suffrage movement in American, which led to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment (1920), which guaranteed all American ...

  • My Name Is Meggie
    By Barbara Allbrandt Fleming, Barbara F Fleming

    My Name Is Meggie , a sequel to the author's historical novel, Journeying, presents the extraordinary life of a strong, independent woman at a time when women were struggling for respect and the freedom to live the lives they chose.

  • One-way Ticket to Epsom: A Journalist's Enquiry Into the Heroic Story of Emily Wilding Davison
    By John Sleight

    One-way Ticket to Epsom: A Journalist's Enquiry Into the Heroic Story of Emily Wilding Davison

  • New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States
    By Marjorie Spruill Wheeler, Marjorie Julian Spruill

    In addition, former Assistant Vice-President for Academic Affairs David J. Bodenhamer (now at Indiana University at ... I have profited greatly from the talents of Karen Wolney and Gail Cooper; I am grateful to them and also to Sheldon ...

  • Prudence
    By Don Lee Taylor

    Having allowed extra time , she arrived at Matilda Jordan's lovely home on Park Avenue in Beaver Dam well before noon and found three women waiting for her . They were amazed to see her alight from a motorcycle , but Prudence quickly ...

  • Sylvia Pankhurst: The Rebellious Suffragette
    By Shirley Harrison

    "Sylvia Pankhurst was the daughter of renowned Suffragette, Emmeline Pankhurst, and the sister of Christabel but her passion against oppression was not just limited to the cause of Votes for Women.

  • Women Making History: The 19th Amendment

    "Official National Park Service Handbook."

  • The Militant Suffragette Movement in York
    By Krista Cowman

    17-43 ; R. Fulford , Votes for Women : the Story of a Struggle , ( London , 1957 ) ; C. Rover , Women's Suffrage and Party ... Rebel Girls : Their Fight For the Vote ( London , 2006 ) ; for Sheffield , see R. Darlington , ed . , Molly ...

  • Votes for Women!: The Story of Carrie Chapman Catt
    By Barbara A. Somervill

    Profiles Carrie Chapman Catt, an educator, prohibitionist, and women's rights advocate who was instrumental in the passage of the nineteenth amendment, which gave women the right to vote.

  • Rightfully Ours: How Women Won the Vote, 21 Activities
    By Kerrie Logan Hollihan

    Tells of the struggle for women's suffrage in the United States, a movement that began alongside the abolitionist cause and continued through the ratification of the 19th amendment, the amendment that granted women the right to vote.

  • Women's Suffrage
    By Deborah Kops

    Profiles early leaders in the fight for women's rights, especially the right to vote, including Mary Wollstonecraft, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

  • Emmeline Pankhurst
    By Lisbeth Kaiser

    Discover the life of Emmeline Pankhurst, who fought for women to get the vote. This inspiring and informative little biography comes with extra facts about Emmeline's life at the back. Age: 5-8 years.

  • Votes for Women, C.1900-28
    By Malcolm Chandler

    Endorsed by Edexcel, this book covers the topic of votes for women. It provides background information on the topic from 1900 to 1928.

  • Suffragettes

    'Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible.' A potted history of the women who pioneered feminism and changed the world.

  • Votes for Women
    By Sandra Stanley Holton, June Purvis

    Votes for Women examines the importance of the suffrage movement to women's general emancipation in the twentieth century, and discusses its role as catalyst to women's social and political equality.

  • The Vote: A Novel
    By Sybil Downing

    A young woman of privilege puts her life on the line for the nineteenth amendment to the U. S. Constitution.

  • You Wouldn't Want to Be a Suffragist!: A Protest Movement That's Rougher Than You Expected
    By Fiona Macdonald

    Rights? What rights? If you believe in equal rights for women - including the right to vote - you wouldn't want to be a suffragist!

  • How the Vote Was Won: The Story of Women's Suffrage and Beyond
    By Ph D Rose Marie Eckert

    "Covers the entire time span from the Seneca Falls Conference in 1848 to the casting of the winning vote for ratification ... highlighting the many struggles, setbacks, and eventual triumphs of the movement and its courageous participants"- ...

  • The Suffragists in Literature for Youth: The Fight for the Vote
    By John Charles, Shelley Mosley

    Focusing on the American suffrage movement and its leaders from its beginnings in 1848, when the first Woman's Rights Convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York, to 1920, when the 19th Amendment was finally ratified and women gained the ...