SIMON, E. M.

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Women's Suffrage: Some Sociological Reasons for Opposing the Movement. First edition in pamphlet form. The author argues that the "highly emotional nature of woman and... her variability" (p. 11) makes her unlikely to possess the "far-sightedness, broad-mindedness, logical reasoning, and impartiality" (p. 12) required to vote. Emily Maud Simon (1861-1947), later Lady Simon, was a dedicated anti-suffragist and a supporter of animal welfare. She adapted Women's Suffrage from her article of the same name, which was first published in the May 1907 issue of the Monthly Review.Provenance: from the collection of the suffrage historian Elizabeth Crawford.

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