Suffrage and Women's Writing

ISBN-13: 9780367354053 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 118 str.

June Hannam; Katherine Holden

Opis

This volume examines different types of women’s creative writing in support of the demand for the parliamentary vote, including autobiographies, memoirs, letters, diaries, novels, and drama. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s Writing.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. "My Part in a Changing World": Women’s Struggle for the Vote and the Autobiographical Subject  2. "Women Who Dared to Ask for a Vote": The Missing Memoirs of the Scottish Suffragettes  3. Writing Suffrage in Edwardian Nottingham  4. The "Sordid Story" of an Unwanted Child: Militancy, Motherhood and Abortion in Elizabeth Robins’ Votes for Women! and Way Stations  5. The Use of Irony as a Subversive Element in Suffrage Theatre  6. The American Suffrage Movement and the Novels of Marietta Holley and Elia Peattie as a Means of Cultural Lobbying