This volume examines different types of women's creative writing in support of the demand for the parliamentary vote, including autobiographies, memoirs, letters, diaries, novels, and drama. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women's Writing.
This volume examines different types of women's creative writing in support of the demand for the parliamentary vote, including autobiographies, memoirs, letters, diaries, novels, and drama. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women's Writing.
June Hannam is co-chair of the West of England and South Wales Women's History Network and a Professor of History at the University of the West of England, UK. She edited the International Encyclopaedia of Women's Suffrage (with Mitzi Auchterlonie and Katherine Holden, 2000). Her other publications include Socialist Women: Britain, 1880s to 1920s (with Karen Hunt, 2001) and Feminism (2007). Katherine Holden is co-chair of the West of England and South Wales Women's History Network and was previously a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, UK. She edited the International Encyclopaedia of Women's Suffrage (with June Hannam and Mitzi Auchterlonie, 2000). Her other publications include The Shadow of Marriage: Singleness in England, 1914-60 (2007) and Nanny Knows Best: The History of the British Nanny (2013).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. "My Part in a Changing World": Women's Struggle for the Vote and the Autobiographical Subject 2. "Women Who Dared to Ask for a Vote": The Missing Memoirs of the Scottish Suffragettes 3. Writing Suffrage in Edwardian Nottingham 4. The "Sordid Story" of an Unwanted Child: Militancy, Motherhood and Abortion in Elizabeth Robins' Votes for Women! and Way Stations 5. The Use of Irony as a Subversive Element in Suffrage Theatre 6. The American Suffrage Movement and the Novels of Marietta Holley and Elia Peattie as a Means of Cultural Lobbying
Introduction 1. "My Part in a Changing World": Women's Struggle for the Vote and the Autobiographical Subject 2. "Women Who Dared to Ask for a Vote": The Missing Memoirs of the Scottish Suffragettes 3. Writing Suffrage in Edwardian Nottingham 4. The "Sordid Story" of an Unwanted Child: Militancy, Motherhood and Abortion in Elizabeth Robins' Votes for Women! and Way Stations 5. The Use of Irony as a Subversive Element in Suffrage Theatre 6. The American Suffrage Movement and the Novels of Marietta Holley and Elia Peattie as a Means of Cultural Lobbying
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