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Votes for women : the Virago book of suffragettes

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"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.

The fight for the vote 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 and poignant 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.

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Virago Press Ltd
1860498965 / 9781860498961
Paperback / softback
06/09/2001
United Kingdom
English
xix, 298p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: 2000.