Votes for Women: The Virago Book of Suffragettes

by Joyce Marlow (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2000

  $4.79

  This anthology reveals the long and bloody history of women getting the vote. Drawing on extracts from diaries, newspapers, letters, journals and books, the story is pieced together using the voices of the women themselves, showing the passion and bravery in their unladylike behaviour. Joyce Marlow has sought to go beyond the obvious, particularly beyond London, to show the ordinary women - middle and working class - who had the courage to stand up and be counted; and just as likely hectored or pelted with eggs.

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.51

  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. 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. 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. These women were clever and determined, knew the power of humour and surprise and exhibited 'unladylike' passion and bravery.
  Joyce Marlow's anthology is lively, comprehensive, surprising and triumphant.