Sandra Stanley Holton
Biographic Data
| ID | 690018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra Stanley Holton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra Stanley |
| FAMILY NAME | Holton |
| SIGNATURE | HOLTON S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7894-6133 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Seven servants and their mistress: Towards a social ecology of domestic service in Street, Somerset (1900-1905)
This article looks at the seven general maids who were employed by a single employer, either separately or together, between 1900 and 1905, in Street, Somerset, U.K. Its methodology is that of microhistory, identifying each of these servants by name from a set of letters written by their employer, which also detail their work for her. The background of each, together with her later life, is also then traced through official and other more public …
Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian World: A Story of Love, Work, Friendship and Marriage
"Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian World: a story of love, work, friendship and marriage." Women's History Review, 27(3), pp. 485–486
Vanishing For The Vote: Suffrage, citizenship and the battle for the census, Jill Liddington
Documents of Life Revisited: Narrative and biographical methodology for a 21st century critical humanismLIZ STANLEY (Ed.)
Friendship and Domestic Service: The letters of Eliza Oldham, general maid (c.1820-1892)
Eliza Oldham (c.1820–92) worked as a general maid in Rochdale and Halifax from the 1840s to the 1870s. A set of her letters to a wealthy relation of two of her employers, Helen Priestman Bright Clark (1840–1927), has been preserved, indicating their close friendship. This article asks what kind of friendship was possible in such a socially and economically unequal relationship, and what it might tell us about class identities and class contest. I…
Challenging Masculinism: Personal History and Microhistory in Feminist Studies of the Women's Suffrage Movement
This article begins by discussing ‘masculinism’ in the field of history in terms of gender blindness. It then looks at a more particular usage of the term, as a resort to the ridiculing and demeaning of women historical actors, not least in some influential treatments of the twentieth-century campaigns in Britain for women's suffrage. It argues that masculinist history rests upon the use of stereotypes of women that, when they do not mock, either…
Kinship and friendship: Quaker Women's Networks and the Women's Movement Sandra Stanley Holton
Women Friends (or 'Quakers') were largely absent from the debates on the position of women in Britain in the 1830s-50s. But a significant group of women Quakers emerged at the forefront of organisations formed in the 1860s to campaign for Women's rights, participation in which was still by no means a norm among their co-religionists. A notable presence among them was a group of women Friends, identified here as the Bright circle, linked by kinshi…
Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women's Suffrage Movement
This is a history of the suffrage movement in Britain from the beginnings of the first sustained campaign in the 1860s to the winning of the vote for women in 1918. The book focuses on a number of figures whose role in this agitation has been ignored or neglected. These include the free-thinker Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy; the founder of the women's movement in the United States, Elizabeth Cady Stanton; the working class orator, Jessie Craigen; a…
Gender Difference, National Identity and Professing History: The Case of Alice Stopford Green
This article explores the relation between the work of history and a changing sense of national and gender identities in the life of Alice Stopford Green. Born within the Anglo-Irish ascendancy, she began such work as assistant to her husband, J. R. Green, one of the pioneers of social history. When he died a few years after their marriage, she found her own calling as a historian, a calling she understood in terms of the world of letters, rather…
Segregation, racism and white women reformers: A Transnational Analysis, 1840-1912
This article tracks continuities between early nineteenth-century female abolitionism and the role of white women reformers in Britain in the campaigns against segregation and lynch law in the USA, and on behalf of black rights in British colonies in the early twentieth century. It argues the value of a transnational perspective to these questions. More particularly, it explores the working out of the ‘maternalist’ legacy of female abolitionism, …
Suffrage and power: The Women's Movement, 1918-1928
Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement
Worlds of Women is an exploration of the "first wave" of the international women's movement, from its late nineteenth-century origins through the Second World War. Making extensive use of archives in the United States, England, the Netherlands, Germany, and France, Lella Rupp examines the histories and accomplishments of three major transnational women's organizations to tell the story of women's struggle to construct a feminist international col…
Feminism, history and movements of the soul: Christian science in the life of Alice Clark (1874-1934)
BookReview
Silk dresses and lavender kid gloves: The wayward career of Jessie Craigen, working suffragist
Occasional references to Jessie Craigen occur in the literature on the nineteenth-century women's suffrage movement, generally emphasizing her importance as a working-class suffragist. Previously unknown material throws more light on her career, revealing the eddies of love and exasperation which flowed around her. This paper discusses the various representations of Jessie Craigen to be found in letters among her friends, representations which se…
From liberal to labour with women's suffrage: The Story of Catherine Marshall
To Educate Women into Rebellion”: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Creation of a Transatlantic Network of Radical Suffragists
Journal Article “To Educate Women into Rebellion”: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Creation of a Transatlantic Network of Radical Suffragists Get access Sandra Stanley Holton Sandra Stanley Holton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 99, Issue 4, October 1994, Pages 1112–1136, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/99.4.1112 Published: 01 October 1994
Victorian feminists
Alice Henry: The Power of Pen and Voice. The Life of an Australian-American Labor Reformer
"The suffragist and the "average woman
This paper questions the marginality of women's suffrage to the new social history of women in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. In so doing, it seeks to challenge any notion of the suffragist and the “average woman” as absolutely distinct categories. Its argument draws on two major revisions underway in the historiography of this field: firstly, the growing recognition that “votes for women” was not simply a single-issue, equa…
The State, The New Middle Class and Women Workers, 1830-1930
Feminists and Suffragists: The British and French Experiences
Feminist forbears
Margaret Foster, Significant Sisters. The Grassroots of Active Feminism 1839–1939 (Penguin Books) Harmondsworth, 1986; David Rubinstein, Before the Suffragettes. Women's Emancipation in the 1890s (Harvester Press) Brighton, 1986
Challenging Masculinism: Personal History and Microhistory in Feminist Studies of the Women's Suffrage Movement
This article begins by discussing ‘masculinism’ in the field of history in terms of gender blindness. It then looks at a more particular usage of the term, as a resort to the ridiculing and demeaning of women historical actors, not least in some influential treatments of the twentieth-century campaigns in Britain for women's suffrage. It argues that masculinist history rests upon the use of stereotypes of women that, when they do not mock, either…
Kinship and friendship: Quaker Women's Networks and the Women's Movement Sandra Stanley Holton
Women Friends (or 'Quakers') were largely absent from the debates on the position of women in Britain in the 1830s-50s. But a significant group of women Quakers emerged at the forefront of organisations formed in the 1860s to campaign for Women's rights, participation in which was still by no means a norm among their co-religionists. A notable presence among them was a group of women Friends, identified here as the Bright circle, linked by kinshi…
Feminism, history and movements of the soul: Christian science in the life of Alice Clark (1874-1934)
Silk dresses and lavender kid gloves: The wayward career of Jessie Craigen, working suffragist
Occasional references to Jessie Craigen occur in the literature on the nineteenth-century women's suffrage movement, generally emphasizing her importance as a working-class suffragist. Previously unknown material throws more light on her career, revealing the eddies of love and exasperation which flowed around her. This paper discusses the various representations of Jessie Craigen to be found in letters among her friends, representations which se…
Feminist forbears
Margaret Foster, Significant Sisters. The Grassroots of Active Feminism 1839–1939 (Penguin Books) Harmondsworth, 1986; David Rubinstein, Before the Suffragettes. Women's Emancipation in the 1890s (Harvester Press) Brighton, 1986
Feminists and Suffragists: The British and French Experiences
"The suffragist and the "average woman
This paper questions the marginality of women's suffrage to the new social history of women in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. In so doing, it seeks to challenge any notion of the suffragist and the “average woman” as absolutely distinct categories. Its argument draws on two major revisions underway in the historiography of this field: firstly, the growing recognition that “votes for women” was not simply a single-issue, equa…
The State, The New Middle Class and Women Workers, 1830-1930
Alice Henry: The Power of Pen and Voice. The Life of an Australian-American Labor Reformer
To Educate Women into Rebellion”: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Creation of a Transatlantic Network of Radical Suffragists
Journal Article “To Educate Women into Rebellion”: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Creation of a Transatlantic Network of Radical Suffragists Get access Sandra Stanley Holton Sandra Stanley Holton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 99, Issue 4, October 1994, Pages 1112–1136, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/99.4.1112 Published: 01 October 1994
Victorian feminists
From liberal to labour with women's suffrage: The Story of Catherine Marshall
Silk dresses and lavender kid gloves: The wayward career of Jessie Craigen, working suffragist
Occasional references to Jessie Craigen occur in the literature on the nineteenth-century women's suffrage movement, generally emphasizing her importance as a working-class suffragist. Previously unknown material throws more light on her career, revealing the eddies of love and exasperation which flowed around her. This paper discusses the various representations of Jessie Craigen to be found in letters among her friends, representations which se…
BookReview
Feminism, history and movements of the soul: Christian science in the life of Alice Clark (1874-1934)
Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement
Worlds of Women is an exploration of the "first wave" of the international women's movement, from its late nineteenth-century origins through the Second World War. Making extensive use of archives in the United States, England, the Netherlands, Germany, and France, Lella Rupp examines the histories and accomplishments of three major transnational women's organizations to tell the story of women's struggle to construct a feminist international col…
Suffrage and power: The Women's Movement, 1918-1928
Segregation, racism and white women reformers: A Transnational Analysis, 1840-1912
This article tracks continuities between early nineteenth-century female abolitionism and the role of white women reformers in Britain in the campaigns against segregation and lynch law in the USA, and on behalf of black rights in British colonies in the early twentieth century. It argues the value of a transnational perspective to these questions. More particularly, it explores the working out of the ‘maternalist’ legacy of female abolitionism, …
Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women's Suffrage Movement
This is a history of the suffrage movement in Britain from the beginnings of the first sustained campaign in the 1860s to the winning of the vote for women in 1918. The book focuses on a number of figures whose role in this agitation has been ignored or neglected. These include the free-thinker Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy; the founder of the women's movement in the United States, Elizabeth Cady Stanton; the working class orator, Jessie Craigen; a…
Gender Difference, National Identity and Professing History: The Case of Alice Stopford Green
This article explores the relation between the work of history and a changing sense of national and gender identities in the life of Alice Stopford Green. Born within the Anglo-Irish ascendancy, she began such work as assistant to her husband, J. R. Green, one of the pioneers of social history. When he died a few years after their marriage, she found her own calling as a historian, a calling she understood in terms of the world of letters, rather…
Kinship and friendship: Quaker Women's Networks and the Women's Movement Sandra Stanley Holton
Women Friends (or 'Quakers') were largely absent from the debates on the position of women in Britain in the 1830s-50s. But a significant group of women Quakers emerged at the forefront of organisations formed in the 1860s to campaign for Women's rights, participation in which was still by no means a norm among their co-religionists. A notable presence among them was a group of women Friends, identified here as the Bright circle, linked by kinshi…
Challenging Masculinism: Personal History and Microhistory in Feminist Studies of the Women's Suffrage Movement
This article begins by discussing ‘masculinism’ in the field of history in terms of gender blindness. It then looks at a more particular usage of the term, as a resort to the ridiculing and demeaning of women historical actors, not least in some influential treatments of the twentieth-century campaigns in Britain for women's suffrage. It argues that masculinist history rests upon the use of stereotypes of women that, when they do not mock, either…
Documents of Life Revisited: Narrative and biographical methodology for a 21st century critical humanismLIZ STANLEY (Ed.)
Friendship and Domestic Service: The letters of Eliza Oldham, general maid (c.1820-1892)
Eliza Oldham (c.1820–92) worked as a general maid in Rochdale and Halifax from the 1840s to the 1870s. A set of her letters to a wealthy relation of two of her employers, Helen Priestman Bright Clark (1840–1927), has been preserved, indicating their close friendship. This article asks what kind of friendship was possible in such a socially and economically unequal relationship, and what it might tell us about class identities and class contest. I…
Vanishing For The Vote: Suffrage, citizenship and the battle for the census, Jill Liddington
Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian World: A Story of Love, Work, Friendship and Marriage
"Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian World: a story of love, work, friendship and marriage." Women's History Review, 27(3), pp. 485–486
Seven servants and their mistress: Towards a social ecology of domestic service in Street, Somerset (1900-1905)
This article looks at the seven general maids who were employed by a single employer, either separately or together, between 1900 and 1905, in Street, Somerset, U.K. Its methodology is that of microhistory, identifying each of these servants by name from a set of letters written by their employer, which also detail their work for her. The background of each, together with her later life, is also then traced through official and other more public …
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Art (11 works) · History (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (10 works) · Suffrage (8 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (7 works)