The Women's Victory—and After. By Millicent Garrett Fawcett. (Sidgwiek and
Jackson. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Fawcett has written her personal reminiscences of the campaign for woman's suffrage from 1911 to 1918. She is entitled to rejoice over the success of her movement, but we must confess to sur- prise at not finding a word- of reproof for the disgraceful out- rages of the "militants," who prejudiced the whole cause in most people's eyes. Indeed, Mrs. Fawcett refers to the woman who flung herself under the King's horse at the Derby of 1913 as if sheWere a martyr. Mrs. Fawcett denounces Lord Bryce for saying that the grant of woman's suffrage had made no difference what- ever in America, and declares that it has already made a great change in this country. But has it ? Women have doubtless been accorded wider opportunities, but we have yet to see whether the moral standard of British life will be raised by the mere grant of votes to women.
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