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5 more reasons to love the Ipswich suffragettes

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Joy Bounds — No Comments ↓

  Let’s look at some other aspects of the suffragettes, and why they are so admirable. **Despite their serious purpose, they had a lot of fun. Working together to achieve important and fundamental change is serious, hard work, and can be…

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Lots of reasons to love the Ipswich suffragettes

Posted on November 28, 2014 by Joy Bounds — No Comments ↓

The suffragettes were of course individual women who each made their own contribution to the campaign for the vote. However, there are admirable features of them as a group. Here are the first 5 of 10 reasons why I love the suffragettes.…

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Posted in A Song of their Own - women's suffrage

Hortense Lane – Ipswich suffragette with a sad story

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Joy Bounds — 3 Comments ↓

Hortense Lane was one of the first active suffragettes in Ipswich. As early as 1909, she appeared in court for refusing to pay her ‘Inhabited House Duty’ as a protest at not having the vote. This was before the No…

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Hilda Burkett – suffragette force-fed to the end

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Joy Bounds — 2 Comments ↓

Suffragette Hilda Burkett with her colleague Florence Tunks burnt down the Bath Hotel in Felixstowe as part of the Votes for Women campaign. She was sentenced in May 1914 to two years imprisonment, and was transferred from Ipswich prison, where…

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Ipswich suffragettes and the arts

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Joy Bounds — No Comments ↓

The women’s suffrage campaign may not have been the first protest movement to utilise the arts to promote its cause, but it was supremely successful in doing so. Its enormous processions in London in the early years of the twentieth…

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Why I Wrote Far From Home?

Posted on June 4, 2014 by c3553904_ss5376j — No Comments ↓

Interests I developed over many years came together in the writing of this book – history, fiction-writing and women’s stories. When travelling through France one summer with my son, we stopped overnight in Rouen, and as tourists do, went to…

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Posted in Far From Home
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  • 100 years ago – first woman MP takes her seat
  • Finally here: the first general election in which women could vote – December 1918.
  • 1918 – could you become an MP (if you were a woman)?
  • 1918 – would you be able to vote – or wouldn’t you?
  • Votes for Women – at last
  • ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON – a remarkable woman
  • Lilian Cranfield – one of Ipswich’s Ridley suffragette sisters
  • Suffrage Stories – highlights 2015
  • The Ipswich suffragettes and the cab driver
  • Ada Ridley – suffragette artist
  • 5 more reasons to love the Ipswich suffragettes
  • Lots of reasons to love the Ipswich suffragettes
  • Hortense Lane – Ipswich suffragette with a sad story
  • Hilda Burkett – suffragette force-fed to the end
  • Ipswich suffragettes and the arts

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