Elizabeth Crawford (historian)

Flyer for the rally that became Black Friday, saved by Kate Frye and included in Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye's Suffrage Diary, edited by Elizabeth Crawford.[1] Purple and green were colors of the movement.[2]

Elizabeth Crawford is a British author, historian and dealer in suffrage ephemera. She has been called the Suffrage Detective[3] and has written several "key works"[4] on the history of the suffrage movement in the United Kingdom including The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, Art and Suffrage: A Biographical Dictionary of Suffrage Artists, and The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey.

The Reference Guide, in particular, has been termed "indispensable."[5] Martin Pugh called the book, which includes 400 biographies and 800 entries on organizations, a "magnificent research tool and a great stimulus to professionals and amateurs alike."[6]

  1. ^ "Campaigning For The Vote: Kate Frye and 'Black Friday', November 1910". Woman and her Sphere. 20 May 2013. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  2. ^ "Women and the Vote: From the Parliamentary Collections".
  3. ^ Duffus, Jane (9 May 2018). "Interview: Elizabeth Crawford – The Suffrage Detective". The Heroine Collective. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  4. ^ "Elizabeth Crawford". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  5. ^ deVries, Jacqueline (2006). "Review of The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey". Victorian Studies. 49 (1): 145–146. doi:10.2979/VIC.2006.49.1.145. ISSN 0042-5222. JSTOR 4618974.
  6. ^ PUGH, MARTIN (2000). "Review of The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866–1928". History. 85 (278): 367. ISSN 0018-2648. JSTOR 24425004.