I loved delving deeper and learning more about the timeline and events of the suffrage struggle. Reading all those original sources was definitely a highlight for me, easily making this one of my fave feminist books. I totally recommend this book for anyone who's interested about knowing more about the suffrage movement in Britain, especially because of the fresh and informative view that comes with an anthology with so many original, unedited and unquoted source material.
The added notes and appendices by author Joyce Marlow are a plus for this great anthology, organizing all sources in a clear and entertaining way, with dates, names, places and events being easily put into context. The book also shows the contrasting views of the Antis, not at all dissimilar from our modern MRAs, sexist dudebros and complicit anti-feminist women (no surprises there, we haven't come *that* far). It's organized in a way that I found really engaging and informative, showing the voices of many different women (male suffragists and allies also make an appearance) with different backgrounds and classes, motivations and mindsets.
An anthology which compiles and draws on actual material from the times, it includes excerpts from letters, journals, newspapers, diaries and official documents, as well as sometimes also quoting from other books written about the events. The spine remains undamaged.This is a really well-organized and researched book about women's suffrage in Britain from the Victorian times to 1928, when women were finally enfranchised. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Joyce Marlow's anthology is lively, comprehensive, surprising and triumphant. These women were clever and determined, knew the power of humour and surprise and exhibited 'unladylike' passion and bravery.
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. 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. 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.
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