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June Purvis gives an in-depth look at the 1909 hunger strike, resulting in prison force feedings and the passing of the 'Cat and Mouse Act'

No Surrender is an important social realist novel about the battle for votes for women. It was written in the moment, at the height of the campaign, by an active suffragette, Constance Maud. Maud was a champion of working class women activists in the suffragette movement at a time when they were dismissed and disregarded by the autocratic leadership of the militant, headline grabbing Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). Through their graphic novel, Sophie and Scarlett Rickard have taken ...

No Surrender is an important social realist novel about the battle for votes for women. It was written in the moment, at the height of the campaign, by an active suffragette, Constance Maud. Maud was a champion of working class women activists in the suffragette movement at a time when they were dismissed and disregarded by the autocratic leadership of the militant, headline grabbing Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). Through their graphic novel, Sophie and Scarlett Rickard have taken ...

I don’t really get the graphic novel. I am neither the target audience nor a fan of the art form. That said, Scarlett and Sophie Rickard’s rendition of Constance Maud’s classic women’s suffrage novel from 1911, No Surrender, is a job well done on several levels.

I don’t really get the graphic novel. I am neither the target audience nor a fan of the art form. That said, Scarlett and Sophie Rickard’s rendition of Constance Maud’s classic women’s suffrage novel from 1911, No Surrender, is a job well done on several levels.

Knebworth House from the air. - Credit: Rob Ryder. Royalty, well-known authors, politicians and rock stars have all visited historic Knebworth House over the years. Famous figures as diverse as Elizabeth I, Charles Dickens, Winston Churchill, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger and Oasis star Noel Gallagher have all been guests at the Hertfordshire stately home. The Gothic Revival mansion has also appeared on screen as the home of Bruce Wayne in Tim Burtons 1989 DC Comics blockbuster Batma...

Published: 3:30 PM March 8, 2021    Updated: 3:43 PM March 8, 2021 Wreaths have been laid at the Knebworth Park Mausoleum in memory of prominent suffragette, Lady Constance Lytton. - Credit: Archant Wreaths have been laid at Knebworth Mausoleum to mark Lady Constance Lyttons contribution to the suffragette movement, for this years International Womens Day. Members of the Stevenage and North Herts Fawcett Society laid the wreath at the Lytton Mausoleum in Knebworth Park on Saturday to celebra...