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…
Lots of reasons to love the Ipswich suffragettes
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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Hortense Lane – Ipswich suffragette with a sad story
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
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
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?
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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