tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post5896503945438982466..comments2024-03-09T20:58:30.185+00:00Comments on Desperate Reader: Votes for WomenDesperate Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15708411387912078122noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-77751632086589540042011-10-13T09:15:24.654+01:002011-10-13T09:15:24.654+01:00Iris, the Virago book is quite good, very easy to ...Iris, the Virago book is quite good, very easy to read because it's all small extracts from contemporary sources, very informative, and mildly shocking in the way it exposed just how little I knew about a subject that's always interested me. Virago also published a memoir called 'The Hard Way Up' by Hannah Mitchell who was a working class suffragette. It turns up in charity shops from time to time and I got a copy recently which I should read...Desperate Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708411387912078122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-85011062343813794142011-10-12T22:39:13.855+01:002011-10-12T22:39:13.855+01:00Reading "No Surrender", like you I felt ...Reading "No Surrender", like you I felt as if I did not know the Sufraggette movement. I always thought it was a middle class movement, so having a working class protagonist really opened my eyes. I know little about the British sufraggette movement, although I did a paper on the Pankhurst in my first year of university. I feel there is a lot of exciting things yet to learn and I can't wait to get my hands on the Virago book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-20269110554380348722011-10-11T23:46:58.688+01:002011-10-11T23:46:58.688+01:00Tanya, thanks for that - as luck would have it I h...Tanya, thanks for that - as luck would have it I have copies of both these books waiting to be read.Desperate Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708411387912078122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-56376713074212894712011-10-11T20:41:59.052+01:002011-10-11T20:41:59.052+01:00There is a suffragette character in Vera Brittain&...There is a suffragette character in Vera Brittain's Honourable Estate - she is based on VB's own mother-in-law, and has quite a lot of space devoted to her. The Virago book sounds great - thanks for writing about it.Tanya Izzardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05229305256800572696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-43121103111832363132011-10-11T10:08:01.139+01:002011-10-11T10:08:01.139+01:00I don't know much about how suffrage worked in...I don't know much about how suffrage worked in America, I see from my Virago book of Suffragettes that the state of Wyoming was the first to give woman the vote in 1869 so I'm guessing this means women didn't do the whole militant thing or the cycle of prison and hunger strikes. <br /><br />The Virago book is fascinating, it's a collection of extracts from newspapers, letters, diaries, books and more which brings the whole struggle to life. It's years since I read it properly and I'm wondering if I have the time to go through it cover to cover again in the next few weeks.Desperate Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708411387912078122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-88243885120587282642011-10-11T00:47:20.838+01:002011-10-11T00:47:20.838+01:00Women's suffrage plays a small part in Kate O&...Women's suffrage plays a small part in Kate O'Brien's Land of Spices. I don't think it's covered in any detail in US high schools, or even general college history courses. But then I don't know much except the US side - this book sounds fascinating.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17782561487396697870noreply@blogger.com