Jad Adams - Women and the Vote ; A World History

I was the grateful recipient of a grant from the Scouloudi Foundation that allowed me to undertake research in the United States. An Authors Foundation grant allowed me to devote myself to this book and eschew other commitments, my thanks to Sir Michael Holroyd and the selection panel.

My thanks to Warwick Gould and my colleagues at the Institute of English, School of Advanced Study, University of London, where I have perched as a historian in the English Department, working on a long term project called Decadent Women: Lives of the Lost Generation. This has enjoyed the support of a travelling scholarship from the British Academy; some work gleaned in those travels has found its way into this book.

The Indian section of this book was written at the home of Narendra Singh Sarila in Sarila; the New Jersey section was written at the home of Serge and Christine Angiel in New Jersey, my heartfelt thanks for all the hospitality I have enjoyed.

My thanks to Cindy Brown at the Wyoming State Archives and Carol Bowers at the American Heritage Centre. The work on Wyoming was written in the Great Plains Hotel, Cheyenne where the staff made me welcome, as did Paula Taylor, Larry Sprague, and Dan Lyon at the Warren Air Force Base Museum. I am also grateful to Bette Epstein at the New Jersey State Archives.

I undertook archive and other research at the John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester; the Womens Library; the Parliamentary Archives; Butler Library, Columbia University; New York Public Library; Senate House Library, University of London; and I am most grateful to the British Library, which I inhabited for such extended periods that the staff pay me the compliment of knowing my name, and I have Reader Enquiries as my best friend on my telephone dialling system.

This book has undergone revisions under the thoughtful guidance of my constant companion, Julie Peakman. I have also received practical help and in some cases advice on revisions from many sources around the world, notably from Margot Badran, Mineke Bosch, Joanna Bourke, Sean Brady, Laurel Brake, Louise Edwards, Geraldine Forbes, June Hannam, James House, Stacey Hynd, Harriet Jones, Asuncin Lavrin, Neil MacMaster, Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Marianna Muravyeva, Lucy Riall, Mina Roces, Rochelle Ruthchild, and Arlette Strijland.

I also received research assistance from Keith Barltrop, Emily Carter, Catherine Dolphin, David Goldfrank, Sheila Gopaulen, Ray L.Hanna, John Hodgson, Gary Kelly, James Lees, Jess Mookherjee, Aviel Roshwald, Dianne Shepherd, Mari Takayangi, and Tony Williams; and have had correspondence with Ellen DuBois, Richard J. Evans, Karen Offen, Polly OHanlan, and Martin Pugh. I am grateful to everyone for their kind attention to my sometimes abstruse questions. Thanks also to computer expert Kevin Vuong of Cymar Electronics who saved the manuscript when I feared it eaten by a computer; to Matthew Cotton and Luciana OFlaherty at OUP; and to Fiona Burrows and Diana Tyler at MBA Literary Agents, who had faith in this book.