ID: 2703
"At Last" Conclusion of "Woman's Effort"
METCALFE, A.E.
Category: History
Place/Publisher/Date:
Oxford, B H Blackwell. 1919.
Description:
First edition; 8vo; publishers original pink wrappers, lettered in black. Inscribed by A.E. Metcalfe to the half-title page; 'With the author's compliments'. A history of the campaign for the vote from the outbreak of World War One until the passing of the 1908 Act which gave a limited number of women the right to vote. The work details suffragette and suffragist reaction to the war. The powferful image to the front cover was taken from Punch, surprisingly as Punch was very hostile to the idea of women voting. The third work by Metcalfe on the question of women's suffrage. Agnes Edith Metcalfe (2nd March 1870 -6th October 1923) was a teacher, author and active suffragist. She was treasurer of the Women's Tax Resistance League. The League protested against the requirement for women to pay taxes while they remained ineligible to vote. In 1913, she appeared at Greenwich Court on Tuesday, charged with non-payment of taxes - The Suffrage newspaper The Vote reported that: she refused on conscientious grounds to pay taxes while women had no vote. The magistrate congratulated Miss Metcalfe on the clearness and eloquence with which she made out her case. He regretted that the law must take its course, and imposed a fine of 7s. with 2s. costs, recoverable by distraint. The alternative was one day's imprisonment. Good, a fragile book, the covers are reinforced at the hinges with archival tape, wear to spine and the extremities. An uncommon book with only a few recorded in institutional holdings and no copies listed at auction.
Price £1500.00
