HARRISON, Ethel B.

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The Freedom of Women. Third impression. The author presents the arguments of those women who did not wish to be "thrust, against their will and better judgement, into active politics" (p. 7).Ethel Bertha Harrison (1851-1916) and her husband, an early trade unionist, were part of an intellectual and literary milieu that included Beatrice Webb, George Eliot, and George Gissing. A prominent opponent of women's suffrage, Harrison served on the executive committee of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League when it was founded in 1908 and organized its first branch, in Hawkhurst, Kent. The Freedom of Women appeared the same year. It was a "much noticed pamphlet" (ODNB) and became a key text of the League.Provenance: from the collection of the suffrage historian Elizabeth Crawford.

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