The Women's Victory - and After by Millicent Garrett Fawcett first edition 1920

FAWCETT, Millicent Garrett. The Women’s Victory - and After: Personal Reminiscences, 1911-1918.
 
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1920.
 
8vo. viii, 176pp. With 5 plates (including frontispiece) reproduced from Punch. Original blue cloth, lettered in black to spine and upper board, double-ruled border to upper board. A very good or better copy. Light rubbing to extremities, minor bumping at spine ends, cloth clean and sound. Internally clean and firm. Occasional light pencil underlining to a handful of pages. Contemporary ownership inscription Mary G. Brailsford to front free endpaper.
 
First edition of Fawcett’s retrospective account of the British women’s suffrage movement. The work covers the years 1911-1918, including the failure of the Conciliation Bill, the escalation of militancy, and the impact of the First World War on public opinion and political progress. The inclusion of contemporary Punch illustrations reflects the extent to which the movement had entered public and political discourse. Fawcett’s account is both a defence of constitutional methods and an interpretation of the movement’s culmination in the Representation of the People Act 1918.
 
An important primary account by one of the central figures of the suffrage movement, not commonly encountered in commerce.