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Look at what came in the mail today to make my first Monday back at work less horrible! I am sad to know that you don‘t get the bookmark with the Book Depository Persephone order. 😭

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19 soldiers story - jenny clegg is truly a soldier of the suffragette army from posting herself to 10 downing st, disrupting a church service and society meal, to the brutality of treatment in prison and force feeding. I loved this bk, written in 1911 is a picture of history told with passion as it happened. This should be on the school curriculum as seems as relevant today as then.

'A soldier to the death' wrote a suffragette to Emmeline pankhurst in 1912 who herself in 1913 in a speech called herself a soldier temporarily left the field. For my autumn #booked2019 'soldiers story' i am going left field with this fascinating bk written in 1911 abt 2 suffragettes from different classes fighting for votes. V readable i can't stop turning the pages on this persephone edition.
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There is a deal on the ebook of this title in Kindle and iBook formats. This was printed by Persephone Books, but in lieu of having the gorgeous dove cover, you can read the book for cheap. 😉

Two years before she threw herself under the king's horse at Epsom, Emily Wilding Davison reviewed No Surrender. She declared that it "breathes the very spirit of our Women's Movement". The suffragettes were the true revolutionaries of their time. We owe them so much and now more than ever we must speak up for those who are silenced. #revolution #heyjune

#JubilantJuly Day 7 - Starts with M/N/O

Three beautiful, feminist stories (making a Woolf/Persephone Sandwich 😆):

MRS. DALLOWAY by Virginia Woolf
NO SURRENDER by Constance Maum
ORLANDO by Virginia Woolf

On the eve of Election Day, here is a wrap up of the books that I read as part of my #OpenCitizen project. The books that I currently own are in the picture above. Books read, but returned to the library, include:
MARCH BOOKS 1-3 by John Lewis
MY OWN WORDS by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
THE ESSENTIAL DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR by Alison Bechdel
FUN HOME by Alison Bechdel
GEORGE by Alex Gino

Published in 1911 at height of the women's suffrage movement in Britain, this book straddles the line between journalism & historical fiction. Many of the events (protests, imprisonment) described here actually took place & the characters are thinly-veiled versions of real people. The book suffers from poor writing, characterization, & plot but makes up for it in the searing accounts. Not a great work of fiction, but a great work.
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In 1911, Constance Maud published this novel based on real events in the fight for women's suffrage. Sadly, it's still relevant and necessary more than 100 years later; especially with the pervasive racism, sexism, and bigotry in the current political rhetoric. #OpenCitizen #PersephoneBooks