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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 ...

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...