Abstract

The author explores the experience of fourteen women from 1914 to 1928, the year when the enfranchisement of women in Britain was completed. These women were active suffragists before 1918 and their political activities continued after the war. Similar in social background, they formed a network of friendship from which they drew strength; yet they were different in their perspectives on feminism and in the extent, nature and direction of their commitment to the women's movement.