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Post by Mitch on May 3, 2006 13:18:33 GMT
New book coming out from Jill Liddington looks interesting, looking at working class women involved in the militant end of suffrage - a common myth that it was just middle class women involved.
(Hey Michele, I'll be going to this next Tuesday 9th May - if you's free for pickup at 5pm - it's not till next Tuesday)
BOOK LAUNCH - @manchester CENTRAL LIBRARY
Rebel Girls by Jill Liddington
Tuesday 9th May, Committee Room, 6-7.30pm - free entrance.
"When arrested, 16 year old weaver Dora Thewlis was catapulted onto the front pages as 'Baby Suffragette'. Dancer Lilian Lenton waited until her twenty-first birthdya - then determined to burn two buildings a week until the Liberal government granted women the vote.
Running out of patience, these young militant mavericks, including Adela Pankhurst, took the fight for the vote to new extremes."
Jill Liddington - suffrage detective - offers a richly researched ... and thrilling tale of Rebel Gril militancy. (Liz Tickner).
This will be a fascinating book - I've no doubt of it.
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Post by michele cryer on May 6, 2006 23:13:57 GMT
Hiya Mitch...sorry for the delay in replying, I've only just spotted this post.
I'd love to come to Manchester with you on Tuesday night to see this book launched...sounds great!!
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Post by Mitch on May 7, 2006 10:50:11 GMT
Hiya Mitch...sorry for the delay in replying, I've only just spotted this post. I'd love to come to Manchester with you on Tuesday night to see this book launched...sounds great!! Cool, if we pull out last minute - no probs as possibly Weds/and defo Thursday evening we've got meets - so if we're both up to it on Tuesday eve, your on - it's a date ;D tarara |
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Post by michele cryer on May 7, 2006 21:04:39 GMT
Okay Mitch...I'll go along with whatever suits you, as you're driving!! ;D
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Post by Mitch on May 8, 2006 13:16:36 GMT
Okay Mitch...I'll go along with whatever suits you, as you're driving!! ;D Ha ha, I was just worried about overload, but i'm right keen to go to this, and hope that Jill Liddington will be there as she is a special person - also I want to buy the book. So I'd say probs a 4.45pm pick-up at yours if that suits. tarara till then Michelline xx ;D |
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Post by michele cryer on May 8, 2006 14:12:58 GMT
Hiya Mitch, I'm really pleased to hear you still want to go to this. I wouldn't mind buying a copy of the book too...I could let my mum and sister and Karen read it after me, if they fancy it. It would be cool to meet Jill Liddington, I'll try to remember me camera!! 4.45pm is fine by me, thanks Mitch!  |
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Post by Mitch on May 8, 2006 18:43:40 GMT
Cool, sees you then, armed with yellow paper  |
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Post by Mitch on May 20, 2006 12:05:22 GMT
Forgot to follow up on this - it was a good do.
It's a fascinating book this, uncovering more hidden suffrage women. This book reveals fascinating insights into the grassroots community workings of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), looking at women like Lavena Saltonstall, a tailoress from then 'fustianopolis' Hebden Bridge who went to prison several times for the cause and Edith Key of Huddersfield, Secretary of the strategically important Huddersfield Branch of the WSPU.
I'll try to do a proper review when I've finished it - have you started reading it yet Michele?
Here's a snippet,
"If girls develop any craving for a different life or wider ideas, their mothers fear that they are going to become Socialists or Suffragettes - a Socialist being a person with lax views about other people's watches and purses, and a Suffragette a person whose house is always untidy.....
I only pass through this world once, and I don't intend to pass through, as a bird flies through the air, leaving no track behind. There are plenty of people plodding along beaten tracks without my joining the company. There are miles and miles of little-frequented paths on life's highway and faintly marked pathways always attracted me more than the beaten road".
(Lavena Saltonstall, 'The Letters of a Tailoress', The Highway, Feb and Jan 1911, in 'Rebel Girls. Their Fight for the Vote', Jill Liddington, p.191, Virago Press, 2006.)
It's a paperback too, and only £14.99.
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Post by michele cryer on May 20, 2006 15:35:35 GMT
Hiya Mitch, thanks for the review of the book and of the event. I haven't yet got round to reading the book...still ploughing thru my Stephen King short stories book, but will start it soon...
I love that description of a Suffragette...'a person whose house is always untidy...' So that's what I am!!! LOL ;D
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