Crossing the Border of Citizenship: Helen Taylor, the Independent Radical Democrat Candidate for Camberwell North, 1885

‘Until 1918, in principle, and 1928 in practice, women’s political activity in Britain was defined as beyond the frontier of formal citizenship’ (Abrams and Hunt, 2000). This article explores the campaign of one such frontier woman, Helen Taylor, to become the first woman MP. Taylor accepted the nom...

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Main Author: Janet Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2020-10-01
Series:Open Library of Humanities
Online Access:https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4651/