Sally Heathcote, Suffragette, by Mary M. Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot

[nwhyte]

Following up from the Talbots' brilliant biography of Lucia Joyce, this excellent graphic story takes a close look at the suffragette movement, through the person of Sally Heathcote, a red-haired Northern girl who moves to London and becomes a core activist, imprisoned and force-fed through a hunger srike, growing up quickly in brutal political

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[parrot_knight]

As a small child (and I still have bootees knitted by her) I knew an elderly suffragette who had firebombed a railway station (goods only, unstaffed at the time, no casualties) and had been on a committee to discuss bombing a cathedral.