It also highlights interpersonal and political conflict that arose in the movement. As it relies on letters, diaries and newspaper accounts, it brings to light the individual personalities of various suffragette leaders and men who supported them.

This is a somewhat unconventional account of the 100 year battle British women fought to win the vote. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women Here is the story in the voices of the women themselves. * A comprehensive anthology of the long and bloody history of women's struggle to get the vote. Joyce Marlow's anthology is lively, comprehensive, surprising and triumphant. 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. 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. 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. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. It was a bloody and dangerous war lasting several decades, won finally by sheer will and determination in 1928.

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

Suffragettes by Joyce Marlow