Silk dresses and lavender kid gloves
The wayward career of Jessie Craigen, working suffragist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4347641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sandra Stanley Holton (0000-0002-7894-6133, The University of Adelaide, corresponding author), Sandra Holton |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 129-150 |
| Publication date | 1996-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612029600200202 |
| OpenAlex | W4236522986 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
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 served to paint her – sometimes warmly, sometimes dismissively – as odd, eccentric, undisciplined. It also examines the more positive sense of herself which she attempted to convey in letters to several of her middle-class promoters – as a romantic authentic in the grip of unbrookable, passionate conviction. Her story confirms the existence of a current of radical-liberal opinion within the nineteenth-century women's movement, and the difficulties which confronted those who found themselves among its paid employees
Art · Conviction · Literature · Political science · Politics · Romance · Sociology · Suffrage · SWORD · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Engineering · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2020 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |