Ann Veronica
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Ann Veronica is a New Woman novel by H. G. Wells published in 1909. It describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, a 21-year-old woman, against her middle-class father's stern patriarchal rule. T
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Suffragette
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A suffragette was a member or supporter of the British Women's Social and Political Union, an activist women's group agitating for votes for women, which in the early 20th century broke away from the
Ann Veronica
…Veronica offers vignettes of the women's suffrage movement in Great Britain and features a chapter inspired by the Grille Incident, a 1908 attempt of suffragettes to storm Parliament. Mr. Stanley forbids his adult daughter, a biology student at Tredgold Women's College and the youngest of his five children, to…
Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst of the WSPU in 1906
De La Rue playing cards back from 1910
Emmeline Pankhurst founded the WSPU in 1903 and became the most prominent of Britain's suffragettes.
Mannequin of Lilian Metge