BBC again - This time a fascinating piece about a young woman who carried out terrorist acts as a Suffragette

[SardineReturns]

the actress who became a terrorist

Really interesting about how their activities are played down / sanitised, and also about how in general the actual lives of women in the Victorian time have been narrowed into a fairly narrow box.

People have of course always been people, and women in those days and everywhere and always will have had the same ambitions, drive, feelings, frustrations - just the historians often paint out our achievements that do not fit to stereotype - as far back I believe in changing feminine names to masculine ones in early bible translations - and when we do things that are properly "feminine" they get lauded.

Still the idea of these women setting bombs in public places - designed to harm the public - is a hard one to get to grips with.

Thanks, marking my place to read it later

Interesting article. Her book looks like it’s worth a read. Always good to read about women with agency from the past who history has written out.

Very thought provoking to think about the use of violence to achieve liberation.

What exactly were the outcomes of suffragette/ suffragist movements. Is it too simplistic to say both worked in tandem to effect the changes made for women’s liberation. At the time, I wonder whether change would have eventually happened with a steady legal approach or was the dramatic acts of violence of the suffragettes needed.

Aside from the descriptions of the suffragette who the book is about, I found it interesting in the article that the historian herself had initially rejected even considering researching the suffragettes as she felt that she didn’t want to conform to the expectation that because she was a woman she must only look at subjects relating to her sex.