Name/TitleJust To Get Married
About this objectSmall booklet with pale marbled cover and a white label bearing the title 'Just To Get Married: A Comedy in Three Acts by Cicely Hamilton', written in 1911 and published by Samuel French, Ltd in 1914.
MakerHamilton, Cicely
Maker RoleAuthor
MakerSamuel French, Ltd
Maker RolePublisher
Date Made1914
Period1910s
Place MadeEngland, London
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 175 x W: 109 x D: 5 mm
Subject and Association KeywordsWomen's suffrage
Subject and Association KeywordsGender equality
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's writing & literature
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicely_Hamilton:
Cicely Mary Hamilton (née Hammill; 15 June 1872 – 6 December 1952) was an English actress, writer, journalist, suffragist and feminist, part of the struggle for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. She is now best known for the feminist play How the Vote was Won, which sees a male anti-suffragist change his mind when the women in his life go on strike. She was also the author of one of the most frequently performed suffrage plays, A Pageant of Great Women (1909), which featured the character of Jane Austen as one of its "Learned Women."
In 1908 she and Bessie Hatton founded the Women Writers' Suffrage League. This grew to around 400 members, including Ivy Compton-Burnett, Sarah Grand, Violet Hunt, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Alice Meynell, Olive Schreiner, Evelyn Sharp, May Sinclair and Margaret L. Woods. It produced campaigning literature, written by Sinclair amongst others, and recruited many prominent male supporters.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBooklet
Object numberGWL-2022-68-2
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved