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Women's Suffrage The suffrage campaign began in the late 1860s with the establishment of two suffrage committees in 1867, one in London and the other in Manchester. They were followed a year later by similar committees in Bristol, Dublin and Edinburgh and spread to other provincial cities. From the start there were concerns about how the question of suffrage should be handled - corresponding to anxieties about women's agency from the early anti-slavery campaigns onwards. The London National Society for Women's suffrage set up a model designed to deviate as little as possible from accepted middle-class norms of womanly behaviour. It stressed the feminine nature of the female campaigners for the suffrage. John Stuart Mill was President of the Society for some years in the late 1860s and insisted that the secretary of the society should always be a married woman. This contrasted with the approach taken in the north of...

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