![]() From ambushes in country churchyards to assaults in the salons of St James's, the campaign against the "Antis" is waged with ingenuity, wit and grim determination: the suffragettes' indomitable spirit undiminished by either the genteel savagery of the gentry or the pragmatic brutality of the working class. A life of drudgery seems inescapable until a chance encounter with a young aristocrat, Mary O'Neil, opens up a world of soapbox oratory and political activism. In a northern mill town, Jenny Clegg watches helplessly as her mother's savings are squandered and her sister's children are sent to Australia by cruel and dissolute husbands. ![]() Republished for the first time in its centenary year, Constance Maud's 1911 novel, No Surrender, is a passionate call to arms issued from the midst of the struggle for female suffrage. ![]() ![]() T wo years before she threw herself under the king's horse at Epsom, Emily Wilding Davison reviewed a book that, she declared, "breathes the very spirit of our Women's Movement". ![]()
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