Victorian Woman’s Suffrage League. (1894-1908)

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Women's Rights Organisation
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-693075

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The Victorian Woman’s Suffrage League was founded in 1894 at a meeting organised by Annette Bear Crawford in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union headquarters in Melbourne. Its platform was votes for women on the same terms as men. Its formation was prompted by the belief that the three existing groups working for women’s suffrage in Victoria (the Australian Women’s Suffrage Society, the Victorian Women’s Suffrage Society and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union) were all associated with extremist views. Although initiated by the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, the League had an entirely separate existence, supposedly not linked to the prohibitionist agenda of the Union. The new League was formulated on a Christian, non-party basis. As such, it was an organisation that moderate women could comfortably join and was immediately popular. It ceased in 1908 with the granting of the vote to women in Victoria.

Archival note: As of 2003, it appears that there is no specific collection of papers relating to the League. However, its activities are documented in the annual reports of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria and other Union records, Its activities were also extensively reported in the Melbourne press and women's journals, particularly, for the years 1900-1905, Vida Goldstein's The Australian Woman's Sphere.

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Australian Women's Register

  1. The Australian Woman's Sphere
    [1900-1905]
    Published: Vida Goldstein
  2. Woman suffrage in Australia : a gift or a struggle?
    Oldfield, Audrey
    [1992]
    Published: Cambridge University Press
  3. The 'Woman Question' in Melbourne, 1880-1914
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    [1983]
    Published: Monash University
  4. Votes for women : the Australian story
    Lees, Kirsten.
    [1995]
    Published: Allen & Unwin
  5. Royal Historical Society of Victoria Inc: Petition (Victorian Woman's Suffrage League) (1898)
    Petition presented on behalf of the Victorian Woman's Suffrage League to the members of the Legislative Council of Victoria, 7th September, 1898, signed on behalf of the League by G. A. Syme, Anna Howie and Eliz. Jackson. The petition outlines eleven arguments in support of the Bill for the political enfranchisement of women.
    MS 000646; Box 58/15

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