Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #203174 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

About the Author
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.

Customer Reviews

Rebel Girls
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.