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Description - Suffragettes by Joyce Marlow

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.

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Book Details

ISBN: 9780349007748
ISBN-10: 0349007748
Format: Paperback / softback
(200mm x 130mm x 21mm)
Pages: 320
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Publish Date: 3-Sep-2015
Country of Publication: United Kingdom

Other Editions - Suffragettes by Joyce Marlow

Votes For Women by Joyce Marlow

Paperback / softback
(September 2001)

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Author Biography - Joyce Marlow

Joyce Marlow was born and bred in Manchester. She started her working life as an actress before turning to full-time writing. She is the author of THE VIRAGO BOOK OF WOMEN AND THE GREAT WAR. Married with two sons she lives in the High Peak district of Derbyshire.

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