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From Silence to Suffrage: Women’s Path to Citizenship in Newfoundland, 1803-1949 Margot I. Duley

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From Silence to Suffrage reveals the remarkable history of how Newfoundland women won the right to vote, despite fierce opposition.

Duley documents the long struggle of Newfoundland women to organize on their own behalf, starting in the early nineteenth century. She follows the women’s temperance movement, along with public debates about poverty, domestic violence, alcohol abuse, prison reform, and other issues considered too delicate for “respectable” women to discuss.

She reveals the lives of women leaders—mostly long-forgotten—who fought for change in the face of fierce resistance. They include Armine Gosling, a remarkably advanced thinker for her time, among other inspiring suffragists who took up the cause.

Through persistence, the Newfoundland Women’s Franchise League overcame determined political opposition and popularized the once radical idea of women voting and running for office.

Author Bio

Margot I. Duley

Margot I. Duley received a BA from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, an MA from Duke University, and a PhD from the University of London, where she was a Rothermere Fellow. Her scholarly interests include the history of women’s movements, especially in India, the United States and Newfoundland, and international women’s alliances.  She is co-editor and chief contributor to the Cross-Cultural Study of Women and serves on the board of Persistence Theatre Company.

From Silence to Suffrage reveals the full history of how Newfoundland women won the right to vote, despite fierce opposition. It builds on historian Margot Duley’s pathbreaking study of the Newfoundland women’s suffrage movement (Where Once Our Mothers Stood We Stand, published in 1993) with newly uncovered information and deeper research.