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List of illustrations ix -- Preface xi -- Acknowledgements xiv -- Abbreviations xv -- PART I Youth and marriage 1847-84 1 -- Ch. 1 The making of a feminist 1847-67 3 -- Ch. 2 The Fawcett marriage 1867-84 13 -- Ch. 3 Into the limelight 1868-74 : education and economics 24 -- Ch. 4 Into the limelight 1869-73 : women's suffrage 35 -- Ch. 5 Quiet years 1874-83 45 -- Ch. 6 Minister's wife and widow 1880-4 58 -- PART II The middle years 1884-1905 69 -- Ch. 7 Recreations of a suffragist 71 -- Ch. 8 Morality 84 -- Ch. 9 Children and others 96 -- Ch. 10 Protecting the Empire 115 -- Ch. 11 Women's suffrage 131 -- PAR T III The suffrage at last 1906-18 147 -- Ch. 12 The advent of militancy 1906-9 149 -- Ch. 13 Turbulent years 1909-14 : moderates and militants 168 -- Ch. 14 Turbulent years 1909-14 : politics and politicians 182 -- Ch. 15 Turbulent years 1909-14 : other interests 200 -- Ch. 16 The catastrophe of war 1914-15 213 -- Ch. 17 Votes for women 1915-18 229 -- PART IV Final years 1918-29 247 -- Ch. 18 The aftermath of war 1918-21 249 -- Ch. 19 A vigorous retirement 1921-5 263 -- Ch. 20 Still campaigning 1925-9 277 -- Bibliography 289 -- Index 303