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Way Stations by Elizabeth Robins (1913)

Permission to publish this work by Elizabeth Robins in an electronic edition is granted by Mabel Smith, literary executor, Elizabeth Robins Estate. Hypertext Markup copyright Joanne E. Gates. Copy text is based on Dodd, Mead & Company edition of 1913, New York. Pagination and punctuation retained. [Note that pagination for an alternate English printing will differ from this American edition.] See full disclosures and contact information in: Notes and Commentary.

C O N T E N T S

BY THE SAME AUTHOR
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I.
WOMAN'S SECRET		page 1
Published originally by the Garden City Press.
TIME TABLE: OCTOBER, 1905 - DECEMBER, 1906		18

II.
THE PRISONERS' BANQUET		page 28
Speech at the Savoy Hotel, December 11, 1906
TIME TABLE: DECEMBER, 1906 - JUNE, 1907		35

III.
THE FEMINISTE MOVEMENT IN ENGLAND		page 40
Published in Collier's Weekly, June 29, 1907
TIME TABLE: June, 1907 - MARCH, 1908		45

IV.
THE SUFFRAGE CAMP RE-VISITED		page 50
A lecture given at the Portman Rooms, London, March, 1908
TIME TABLE: MARCH - JUNE, 1908		74

V.
THE MEANING OF IT		page 79
An impression of the Great Hyde Park Demonstration, published in the Daily Mail, June 22, 1908
TIME TABLE: JUNE - SEPTEMBER, 1908		82

VI.
AT NEWCASTLE TOWN HALL		page 86
September 1908
TIME TABLE: SEPTEMBER, 1908 - MARCH, 1909		92

VII.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES		page 99
Speech at the Queen's Hall, London, printed in Votes for Women, March, 1909
TIME TABLE: MARCH - MAY, 1909		111

VIII.
TO THE WOMEN WRITERS' SUFFRAGE LEAGUE		page 114
At the Waldorf Hotel, London, May 4, 1909
TIME TABLE: MAY - JULY, 1909		120

IX.
THE HUNGER STRIKE		page 125
Letter published in the Westminster Gazette, July 21, 1909
TIME TABLE: JULY 22 - DECEMBER 3, 1909		129

X.
WHY?		page 138
Published in Everybody's Magazine, December, 1909, New York; in Votes for Women, London, and as a pamphlet by the Women Writers' Suffrage League.
TIME TABLE: DECEMBER, 1909 - MAY, 1910		196

XI.
SHALL WOMEN WORK?		page 201
A lecture given at St. James Hall, London, and here reprinted by permission of the Fortnightly Review. It also was published by the Metropolitan Magazine, New York
TIME TABLE: MAY - AUGUST, 1910		225

XII.
MR. PARTINGTON'S MOP		page 228
Votes for Women, August 12, 1910
TIME TABLE: MAY, 1911		239

XIII.
THE WOMEN WRITERS AT THE CRITERION		page 243
May 23, 1910
TIME TABLE: JULY, 1910 - JUNE, 1911		251

XIV.
COME AND SEE		page 262
The Coronation Suffrage Pageant, reprint from the Westminster Gazette of June 16, 1911
TIME TABLE: JUNE 16 - OCTOBER, 1911		269

XV.
AT CROWBOROUGH, SUSSEX		page 271
October 23, 1911
TIME TABLE: OCTOBER, 1911 - MARCH 7, 1912		275

XVI.
LETTERS TO THE TIMES		page 288
March 7, 1912
TIME TABLE: MARCH 5-22, 1919		292

XVII.
THE PERFIDY OF SYMPATHIZERS		page 295
Votes for Women, March 22, 1912
TIME TABLE: MARCH 22-28, 1919		301

XVIII.
AT THE ALBERT HALL		page 304
Speech, March 28, 1912
TIME TABLE: MARCH 28 - APRIL, 1912		312

XIX.
SERMONS IN STONES		page 317
Reprinted by permission of the Contemporary Review
TIME TABLE: APRIL - JUNE, 1912		331

XX.
THE ALBERT HALL SPEECH		page 339
June 15, 1912
IN CONCLUSION		349
Printed under the title, Woman's War, [NOTE] by McClure's Magazine, March, 1913