Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Women's Suffrage in Wales
Women's Suffrage in Wales
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Cyfrol ddiddorol sy'n cynnig cyfle unigryw i'r darllenwyr gael cip ar fywydau nifer o wragedd cyffredin o Gymru a gyfrannodd tuag at y mudiad i ennill pleidlais i ferched, ond na chofnodwyd eu cyfraniad at sicrhau cyfleoedd cyfartal.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
Women's Suffrage In Wales allows readers to glimpse at the lives of the many ordinary Welsh women who contributed in some way to the suffrage movement. Although suffragettes from across the rest of Britain, such as Emmeline Pankhurst and Emily Wilding Davis, have become household names, little is ever mentioned about the women living in Wales who fought for equal opportunities.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781526723994
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781526723994
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Women's Suffrage in Wales
- Awdur / Author
- Tippings, Lisa
- Current Price ex VAT
- £14.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £14.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2019-03-18
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Limited
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 152 pages
- Size
- 156 × 234 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Hanes, Hanes Lleol, Arferion Gwlad, Llên Gwerin (yn Saesneg) | EN: History, Welsh Life and Customs, Local History, Folk Tales (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: 20fed Ganrif (yn Saesneg) | EN: 20th Century (in English)
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
Lisa Tippings, a Swansea-based academic and a widely published author, has her roots firmly in the valleys of south Wales during the 1970s. She is passionate about social history and in particular the role played by Welsh women in cultural and political developments from the nineteenth century onwards. And the fascinating, highly personal introduction to this study points up how her upbringing moulded powerfully her historical perceptions and research work thereafter. Given the eventual decision to grant the right to vote in parliamentary elections to women over the age of thirty in the Fourth Reform Act enacted in 1918, recent years have witnessed the publication of a torrent of monographs, biographies and scholarly journal articles on the Suffragette movement and its achievements. Unfortunately, Wales often tends to be on the periphery of such research projects. Tippings has in this very fine study set out to correct this imbalance with determination, and in this publication she has achieved this with formidable success. The focus of her readable study, which begins in the 1860s around the period of the passage of the pioneering Second Reform Act, is the thousands of ordinary women resident in Wales, most of these with working class origins and living in squalid conditions, who devoted themselves to the long overdue cause of the emancipation of women. It provides a Welsh angle to a very important historical topic that is often generalised as a British issue. Much attention is also given to the important role of bodies like the Primrose League and the Welsh Women's Liberal Association alongside the specifically Suffragette organisations which established their own discrete groupings within Wales. Especially interesting are the greatly contrasting attitudes of prominent politicians like the Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and David Lloyd George, who, as the reforming Chancellor of the Exchequer, founded his public life hounded by the activities of rampant Suffragettes, including at prominent public events at Llanystumdwy and Wrexham. Lloyd George and his party were extremely popular in north Wales, which had more branches of the Anti-Suffrage League than any other part of Wales – a definite correlation. This is a very interesting relationship that is carefully explored in this book. The suffrage movement was deeply affected by the outbreak of the Great War and these events changed history forever as the ladies at home had to pick up the slack for the men at war. They soon proved themselves able-bodied, clever and important to society. The analysis then moves on into the inter-war period, when numbers of women became involved in factory work, and indeed much beyond. It follows the evolution of the suffrage movement into the more general women’s rights movement, as well as considering the role of the women of south Wales in the more general movements concerning greater equality for all and the welfare state that accelerated after World War II and the momentous legislative enactments of the Attlee administrations between 1945 and 1951. The careers of a large number of very eminent south Wales women, whose lives had previously largely fallen into near obscurity, are examined in much detail in this study which is based on far-reaching research. These include Gertrude Jenner, Rose Mary Crawshay and Margaret Haig Mackworth, Lady Rhondda, best known as the founder of the influential journal Time and Tide and who was imprisoned at Usk Gaol for setting fire to a postbox at Newport. These ladies, all of whom had suffered severe personal circumstances in their lives, are now consequently restored to their rightful place in history alongside the much more familiar household names of Emmeline Pankhurst and Emily Wilding Davies. The book ends in a fitting way, bringing the reader right into the present day and the commemorative events that were held in 2018–19. The volume has been lavishly produced, and includes a large number of photographs and pictures of the prominent individuals discussed here, and of some of the many posters and broadsheets from the period. There are also several columns reproduced from the newspapers of the day. The study sports a useful bibliography of the main sources used by the author and a helpful index. J. Graham Jones t is possible to use this review for promotional purposes, but the following acknowledgment should be included: A review from www.gwales.com, with the permission of the Welsh Books Council.
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