Women's Suffrage Journal

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The Women's Suffrage Journal was a magazine founded in 1870 by Lydia Becker and Jessie Boucherett. It was originally called the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage Journal , but within a year the title was changed as Becker wanted to expand its influence beyond Manchester's radical liberal elite. She carried news of events affecting all walks of life for women, but most of all she was focused on reports that demonstrated the breadth of support that the ordinary population had for women suffrage in the UK . She also frequently published instructions on how to prepare a petition that could then be presented to the House of Commons .

Lydia Becker died suddenly in July 1890 after she had gone to rest as her health deteriorated. As a result, the Women's Suffrage Journal discontinued its publication and published the following note to all readers:

"For twenty years and four months this Journal has received the impress of one hand and one mind, so that its long row of volumes forms one continuous work, and now when that careful hand is laid low and the energies of that far-seeing mind are carried beyond our mortal ken, it would seem the most fitting course to close these pages where Miss Becker left them, so that the journal shall be wholly hers ... "

(German: For twenty years and four months this magazine was shaped by one hand and one mind, so that the long series of volumes forms a continuous work. And now that this careful hand is no longer moving and the energies of that farsighted mind beyond of our mortal being, it seems the most appropriate course of action to close these pages, as Miss Becker left them, so that this magazine remains entirely hers ... )

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bibliography

  • Glenda Norquay: Voices and Votes: A Literary Anthology of the Women's Suffrage Campaign. Manchester University Press 1995. ISBN 978-0-719-03976-8
  • Michelle Elizabeth Tusan: Women Making News: Gender and Journalism in Modern Britain. University of Illinois Press 2005. ISBN 978-0-252-03015-4
  • Sophia A. van Wingerden: The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain, 1866-1928. Palgrave Macmillan 1999. ISBN 978-0-312-21853-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norquay, 1995, pp. Ix
  2. ↑ van Wingerden, 1999, pp. 23/24
  3. ↑ Lydia Becker, Manchester's Radical History.Retrieved May 17, 2019