Product Description

During the British women’s suffrage campaign of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women wrote plays to convert others to their cause; they wrote essays to justify their militant actions; and they wrote fiction and poetry about their prison experiences.

This volume is a diverse collection of these writings, focused on the women’s suffrage campaign in England and written primarily during the brief period between the New Woman writers of the 1890s and the modernists of the twentieth century. Many of these works have not been reprinted since they were first published.

This important collection includes essays reflecting a variety of opinions and political positions; excerpts from autobiographies by women involved in the movement; suffrage poetry; the song that became the official song of the British suffrage movement; several one-act plays that were written and performed specifically to advance the suffrage cause; and short stories and excerpts from novels about suffrage.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #717184 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 353 pages

Valerie Sanders, The University of Hull
"This is the richest collection yet of suffrage materials, fully introduced, annotated and illustrated... an invaluable anthology."

About the Author
Carolyn Christensen Nelson is a Senior Lecturer in English literature at West Virginia University. She is the editor of A New Woman Reader: Fiction, Articles, and Drama of the 1890s (Broadview Press, 2001) and British Women Fiction Writers of the 1890s (Twayne Publishers).