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I have read many books about the Suffragettes and this is one I regard highly, it gives a well researched overview of all the key events and the movers and shakers so if you are studying the subject, it is a valuable resource. 2015 by Joyce Marlow (Author) 57 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 2.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback 9.37 23 Used from 0.25 20 New from 5. Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women Marlow, Joyce Published by Virago Press (UK), 2017 ISBN 10: 0349007748 ISBN 13: 9780349007748 Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, U.S.A. 100 years on now since women got the vote in England. These women were clever and determined, knew the power of humour and surprise and exhibited 'unladylike' passion and bravery. Joyce Marlow Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women Paperback 3 Sept. In 1913, David Lloyd George said, Havent the Suffragettes the sense to.
Some of the people and events are well-known, but Marlow has gone beyond the obvious, particularly beyond London, to show us the ordinary women - middle and working-class, who had the breathtaking courage to stand up and be counted - or just as likely hectored, or pelted with eggs. Joyce Marlow said that: For every Suffragette there was always dozens of non. Drawing on extracts from diaries, newspapers, letters, journals and books, Joyce Marlow has pieced together this inspiring, poignant and exciting history using the voices of the women themselves. Joyce Marlow's anthology is lively, comprehensive, surprising and triumphant.Queen Victoria is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad wicked folly of women's rights, with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor sex is bent' - 1870 It was a bloody and dangerous war lasting several decades, won finally by sheer will and determination in 1928.
These women were clever and determined, knew the power of humour and surprise and exhibited 'unladylike' passion and bravery. Some of the people and events are well-known, but Marlow has gone beyond the obvious, particularly beyond London, to show us the ordinary women - middle and working-class, who had the breathtaking courage to stand up and be counted - or just as likely hectored, or pelted with eggs.
Queen Victoria is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad wicked folly of women's rights, with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor sex is bent' - 1870 It was a bloody and dangerous war lasting several decades, won finally by sheer will and determination in 1928.
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