This well-structured, fluent and lively account, uses new archival material to assess whether the prominent campaigner for the women's right to vote should be seen as a heroine or a tyrant, a conservative or a progressive.

Introduction: Principles before politics PART I A POLITICAL APPRENTICESHIP 1858-1903 1 Shaping a life 1858-80 2 The Liberal years 1880-94 3 The ILP years 1894-1903 PART II THE SUFFRAGETTE STORY 1903-14 4 Suffragette beginnings 1903-07 5 Deeds and words 1908-09 6 Deeds not words 1910-12 7 The height of militancy 1913-14 8 International fund-raising 1909-13 PART III LIFE AFTER THE VOTE 1914-28 9 The First World War 1914-18 10 Life after the war 1918-28