The Cause. A History of the Women's Movement in Great Britain.

Strachey's "best-known and most successful book"

First edition. 8vo. 429, [1] pp., frontispiece black and white photographic portrait of Millicent Fawcett and fifteen photographic plates. Original reddish-brown cloth, spine lettered in black, dust jacket (occasional faint pencilled marginal highlighting, faint spotting to edges and endpapers; some light wear to edges, spine panel toned and slightly scruffed with some minor chipping to head, notwithstanding a very good copy example of the distinctly scarce dust jacket). London, G. Bell and Sons, Ltd.

The Cause was Strachey's "best-known and most successful book" (ODNB) and was for many decades regarded as the classic account of the English women's movement. "While acknowledging in a limited way the importance of the militants, it established a version of the suffrage movement that endorsed the views and celebrated the role of Millicent Fawcett and the NUWSS" (ODNB). The appendix includes a previously unpublished essay on the position of women in society by Florence Nightingale titled 'Cassandra'.

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