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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 and breathed new life into it for a 21st century readership.

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 and breathed new life into it for a 21st century readership.

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.