A HANDBOOK FOR WOMEN.

EDUCATION AND

EMPLOYMENT.

LAWS SPECIALLY AFFECTING WOMEN.

ORGANIZATIONS, &c.

INDEX.

CHART OF WOMEN'S PROGRESS.

Bristol:

J. W. ARROWSMITH, 11 QUAY STREET.

London:

EDWARD STANFORD, 26 & 27 COCKSPUR STREET CHARING CROSS, S.W.

The first edition of this little book appeared in 1881.
It was suggested by the enquiries constantly made at the
various offices of the NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S
SUFFRAGE, in the hope that it might afford in a short
compass the information most frequently asked for.

Similar enquiries on an ever increasing variety of

topics continue to be made; but the book has long been

obsolete in nearly all its parts. This new edition is

therefore now offered in the hope that it will be found

a handy book of reference to the rapidly increasing band

of "Women Workers."

Several of the additional sections have appeared from

time to time in the Englishwoman's Review and Women's

Suffrage Calendar, and are here brought up to the present

time.

The Illustration on the cover represents the Seal of
Ela, Countess of Salisbury, who, as Sheriff of Wiltshire,
and later as Abbess of Laycock, was "a woman engaged in
social and political work" six centuries ago.

10 GREAT COLLEGE STREET,

WESTMINSTER,

November, 1895.

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CONTENTS.

Diagram: Comparative Position of Women in England,
1100 to 1895 (Frontispiece).

PART I.

PUBLIC FRANCHISES.

CHAPTER I. - PARLIAMENTARY FRANCHISES.

Diagram: Growth of Electoral Power.

CHAPTER III. - FRANCHISES EXERCISED BY WOMEN ABROAD.

§ 11. The Colonies.

§ 12. Europe.

§ 13. United States.