Rebel Girls
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
Rejecting the deadening conventions of their Victorian elders, the rebel girls demanded new freedoms and new rights. They took their suffrage message out to the remotest Yorkshire dales and fishing harbours, to win Edwardian hearts and minds. 16-year-old Huddersfield weaver Dora Thewlis on arrest was catapulted onto the tabloid front-pages as 'Baby Suffragette'. Her life was transformed. Dancer Lilian Lenton waited till her twenty-first birthday - then determined to burn two buildings a week until the Liberal government granted women the vote. Rebel Girls shows how this daring campaigning shifted from community suffragettes to militant mavericks.
Liked Rebel Girls? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked Rebel Girls. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
The Ascent of Woman Shares feminism, nonfiction, history -
Behind Every Great Man: Women in the Shadows of History's Alpha Males Shares feminism, nonfiction, history -
Failure is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words Shares feminism, nonfiction, woman suffrage -
Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century Shares feminism, nonfiction, history
