Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/34783
- Title
- An unexpected recruit to feminism: Jessie Boucherett's 'feminist life' and the importance of being wealthy
- Author/Creator
-
Jordan, Ellen;
Bridger, Anne
- Institution
- The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
- Description
- In 1859 Jessie Boucherett, the daughter of a Lincolnshire landowner possessed of an independent income, was inspired by press discussions of the need to find alternative occupations for women to make contact with the women who were already spreading this message through the English Woman's Journal. With their rather grudging support she founded a society, which still exists, to further this aim, the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (now the Society for Promoting the Training of Women). Using the records of this Society, now housed at Girton College, Cambridge, this article looks at the way commitment to this cause allowed a woman from a wealthy, high Tory, landed background to turn herself in six years into the feminist who put up the initial money for the women's suffrage campaign, and went on to be a leading figure in campaigns to reform the married women's property laws and against legislation restricting women's work. It examines in particular the use she made of her personal wealth to direct the strategies of the activist groups to which she belonged.
- Relation
- Women's History Review Vol. 15, Issue 3, p. 385-412
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09612020500530133
- Date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Keyword(s)
-
feminism;
suffrage;
Society for Promoting the Employment of Women;
Society for Promoting the Training of Women;
Jessie Boucherett
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Rights
- This is an electronic version of an article published in Women's History Review Vol. 15, Issue 3, p. 385-412. Women's History Review is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0961-2025&volume=15&issue=3&spage=385
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/34783
- Identifier
- ISSN:0961-2025
- Reviewed
- Full Text
-
-
46 Visitors
49 Hits
2 Downloads
List Of Titles
