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Praise for Jude Starling: Intelligence and wit light up the pages... skilfully constructed. (For Books' Sake) Highly recommended. (Bookworm is My Totem) Evanna Bailie is not interested in politics. She leaves the fight for women's suffrage to her mother and sister - at least until she meets the clever, scrappy women of the WSPU. Life as a suffragette can offer her excitement, camaraderie, travel - all the things that her mill town life is lacking, and Evanna is swiftly sucked into the vortex of the campaign for Votes for Women. Yet as Evanna's new life leads her into adventure, it also catapults her into danger. As she learns to appreciate the finer things in life in the company of the society ladies who populate the WSPU, she must also learn to endure censure, jail time and mounting violence as the tide of public opinion turns against the suffragettes. A rich blend of fact and fiction by Jude Starling. Included bonus material: * The Feminine Bourgeoisie and the Feminine Proletariat: The Fight for the Vote * Not Women of Milk and Water: The Suffragettes Behind the Story * She Ought to be at School: Deleted Material - Dora Thewlis * Tracing the Path of the Suffragettes: Some of The Right of the Subjects' More Obscure Place Names and Landmarks No library descriptions found. |
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While I know a little bit about the British Woman’s Suffrage movement- mainly about upper class women such as Mrs. Pankhurst- I was completely ignorant about the role working class women played. I should have known that there would have to be a lot of less well off women to create the mobs that were willing to be arrested, beaten, sexually assaulted, and have their health and lives risked in prison!
Evie is an interesting and, as the story goes on, a sympathetic, protagonist; she undergoes a lot of growth in the story and has the good luck to find out who she truly wants to be. There is a strong cast of varied characters both historical and fictional; the movement brought different classes of women together as allies for the first time, and same sex relationships became quietly accepted. Told from Evie’s point of view, the story engages and satisfies.
Starling researches her books thoroughly, and with this book she includes ‘extras’, rather like a DVD; essays about things she found out about the suffrage movement. While certainly not necessary to understand the story, they add depth and make the reader appreciate the movement and the women who created it more. ( )