"Daring? Well yes, I suppose it was daring."
This week's best thing ever: recordings of suffragettes going back to 1937.
The Holly-and-roz-mcclure Society of Feminists Who Suddenly Feel Bad About Not Fighting The Patriarchy With Airships particularly recommends:
Muriel Matters, who sounds wonderfully as if she's reading out a children's book to a class of eager five-year-olds. It was quite a little airship, eighty feet long, and written in large letters on the gas bag were three words: VOTES FOR WOMEN. Below this was suspended an extremely fragile rigging.
Lilian Lenton, whose specialty was escaping when under house arrest: Well, I set fire to a lot of buildings...
Elizabeth Dean, crossly pointing out that not all suffragettes were middle-class: It didn't take me long to realise that the vote was just one thing, and not very much.
The Holly-and-roz-mcclure Society of Feminists Who Suddenly Feel Bad About Not Fighting The Patriarchy With Airships particularly recommends:
Muriel Matters, who sounds wonderfully as if she's reading out a children's book to a class of eager five-year-olds. It was quite a little airship, eighty feet long, and written in large letters on the gas bag were three words: VOTES FOR WOMEN. Below this was suspended an extremely fragile rigging.
Lilian Lenton, whose specialty was escaping when under house arrest: Well, I set fire to a lot of buildings...
Elizabeth Dean, crossly pointing out that not all suffragettes were middle-class: It didn't take me long to realise that the vote was just one thing, and not very much.