Rejecting the deadening conventions of their Victorian elders, the rebel girls demanded new freedoms and new rights. They took their suffrage message out to the remotest Yorkshire dales and fishing harbours, to win Edwardian hearts and minds. 16-year-old Huddersfield weaver Dora Thewlis on arrest was catapulted onto the tabloid front-pages as 'Baby Suffragette'. Her life was transformed. Dancer Lilian Lenton waited till her twenty-first birthday - then determined to burn two buildings a week until the Liberal government granted women the vote. Rebel Girls shows how this daring campaigning shifted from community suffragettes to militant mavericks.
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Drawing upon brand new evidence, Jill Liddington tracks the story of these forgotten suffragettes across the north of England and offers an utterly original history of suffrage.
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Jill Liddington is co-author of One Hand Tied Behind Us (Virago 1978) which quickly became a suffrage classic. She is a Senior Research Fellow at Leeds University.
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This very important book has brought to life the adventurous days of these young women's fight for justice. Their brilliant, courageous story might have slipped through the cracks of history but for this work by Jill Liddington, and the debt owed by half of today's voters may never have been acknowledged. This book made me very angry that treatment such as imprisonment and force-feeding was dished out routinely on people who only wanted what we today take for granted. And this happened in my father's lifetime! A superb book.
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This meticulously researched book brings to public attention the forgotten women of the Suffragette movement. Much research in the past has focused on the Pankhursts and their mainly middle class supporters in London, neglecting the history of the ordinary, brave women who risked their lives and livelihoods in their fight for the vote. This is a compelling account of the mainly working class women, many living within the textile communities of Yorkshire, who found their voice through the Suffragette movement. In writing this important book, Jill Liddington has brought to life the social and political world of the Edwardian era and given life to the players who were marginalised by the starring roles of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst in particular. Whilst the importance of the Pankhursts in the Votes for Women campaign cannot be denied, Liddington reminds us that this was a much bigger movement than just the WSPU in London and that the women in the North of England played an important part in our history, or should I say herstory! Read this book, along with Liddington's "One Hand Tied Behind Us" - the story of the radical suffragists in Lancashire - to get the full and true story of the Votes For Women campaign.
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What an amazing piece of work. This book really brought to life the times of the suffragette. Well reserched and an engaging historical read.
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'Rebel Girls' Opens One to a Vanished Era
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By James Strock
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In Philipp Blom's wonderful book, The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914, I came across a legendary photograph of Lililan Lenton. She was a British suffragette of some renown, with an extraordinary story (I won't offer any scene-spoilers here). The photograph was taken while she was imprisoned. Under surveillance, bereft of any of hair or clothing styles of the time to distract us, we see a striking young woman who looks as though she stepped out of history straight into our time. This piqued my curiosity and led me to Rebel Girls.
That curiosity was rewarded. Rebel Girls is a fine book, painstakingly researched and well-informed about the Suffragettes. Lenton is but one of an amazing group.
If there is one, albeit slight, blemish to the book, it's the author's occasional tendency to attempt to explicitly draw her subjects into our time and way of thinking, rather than letting them express themselves without such distraction. That said, it's not a major problem in my mind--and, to be sure,it's a temptation which snares any number of historical writers today.
The Rebel Girls story is so important and interesting that it should be able to stand on its own, speaking to people far into the future.
That curiosity was rewarded. Rebel Girls is a fine book, painstakingly researched and well-informed about the Suffragettes. Lenton is but one of an amazing group.
If there is one, albeit slight, blemish to the book, it's the author's occasional tendency to attempt to explicitly draw her subjects into our time and way of thinking, rather than letting them express themselves without such distraction. That said, it's not a major problem in my mind--and, to be sure,it's a temptation which snares any number of historical writers today.
The Rebel Girls story is so important and interesting that it should be able to stand on its own, speaking to people far into the future.
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