143 years ago Mill celebrated his 61st birthday by introducing an amendment to the Reform Act of 1867 that granted woman the full voting rights of men. It was the first time such a proposal had ever been made in Parliament. The amendment was rejected by a vote of 196 to 73. Mill's heroic act not only created an onslaught of criticism and satirizing, it cost him his seat in parliament three years later.
It would take 61 more years (1928), and acres of broken glass, till the woman of the UK won the full voting rights of men.
Some images on SepiaTown documenting that struggle
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More details of John Stuart Mill's support for woman's suffrage at charlespetzold.comhttp://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2009/02/1859-Books-John-Stuart-Mill-On-Liberty.html
John Stuart Mill's Quotes
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill
John Stuart Mill Wikipedia Article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill
'Woman Suffrage in the United Kingdom' Wikipedia Article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_Kingdom
'Women Social and Political Union (UK)' Wikipedia Article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Social_and_Political_Union
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ReplyDeleteAnti Suffrage League, circa 1910
ReplyDeleteStrabane men dressed as women in protest against women's suffrage.
http://www.sepiatown.com/811506-AntiSuffrage-League-Christ-Church-Strabane-UK