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  • Lady Constance Lytton

    Prison Reformer and Suffragette

    “Prisons, as you know, have been my hobby” wrote the prominent suffragette Lady Constance Bulwer-Lytton. An influential British activist as well as a writer, speaker and campaigner for votes for women – and not forgetting prison reform – Constance Lytton was born in Vienna and spent the first eleven years of her life in India (her father was the Viceroy). After meeting a number of suffragettes, ... Leer más

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  • Prisons and Prisoners

    Some Personal Experiences

    Prisons and Prisoners is the autobiography of aristocratic suffragette Constance Lytton. In it, she details her militant actions in the struggle to gain the vote for women, including her masquerade and imprisonment as the working-class “Jane Warton.” As a member of a well-known political family (and grand-daughter of the famous novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton), Lytton's arrests garnered much ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Prison & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences (Unabridged)

    Narrado por Luann Martinez ...

    Completo

    8 hora 24 minutos

    Constance Lytton worked along Emmeline Pankhurst for the cause of women's suffrage in England. Upset that she was getting preferential treatment by the authorities, she assumed a pseudonym so that her titled status wouldn't be obvious. This book chronicles her involvement in the suffrage movement, including her arrest and subsequent incarceration at Holloway Prison, a place notorious for the poor ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Prisons Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences

    Lytton details her arrest and subsequent imprisonment, offering insights into the conditions of British prisons and the treatment of political prisoners, particularly suffragettes. She vividly describes the physical and psychological challenges she encountered, including the harshness of confinement, the lack of basic amenities, and the disdainful attitudes of prison officials toward women who ... Leer más

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  • 100 Years of Women's Suffrage

    A University of Illinois Press Anthology

    100 Years of Women’s Suffrage commemorates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment by bringing together essential scholarship on the women's suffrage movement and women's voting previously published by the University of Illinois Press. With an original introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt, the volume illuminates the lives and work of key figures while uncovering the endeavors of all women—across ... Leer más

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  • Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences

    A Personal Journey Through Prison: A Victorian Activist's Fight for Reform

    In "Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences," Constance Lady Lytton delves into the harrowing realities of incarceration, intertwining personal anecdotes with a critical examination of the penal system in early 20th-century Britain. Written in a compelling and accessible literary style, the book merges narrative storytelling with sociopolitical commentary, exposing the injustices faced by ... Leer más

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  • Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences

    Some of the experiences which I have to record are of so unusual a character that I think it will help to a better understanding on the part of my readers if I briefly outline the drift of my existence before I became aware of the women’s movement, and in touch with that section of it known as the “Militant Suffragettes.” My father had been dead fifteen years and I was thirty-nine years old in ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Forgotten Authors, The - Volume 2

    M McDonell Bodkin Q C to Constance Cotterell

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    12 hora 30 minutos

    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Leer más

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    Original Complaints from Middle England

    In this new book, the first ever collection of letters from the legendary letters page of the Tunbridge Wells Advertiser, we are offered an insight into what makes complaining so much fun. Decrying everything from telephones to the excessive singing of Christmas carols, and providing unusual and often touching missives on the major events of the early 20th century, Outraged of Tunbridge Wells ... Leer más

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  • The Strange Death of Liberal England

    1910-1914

    This book focuses on the chaos that overtook England on the eve of the First World War. Dangerfield weaves together the three wild strands of the Irish Rebellion (the rebellion in Ulster), the Suffragette Movement and the Labour Movement to produce a vital picture of the state of mind and the most pressing social problems in England at the time. The country was preparing even then for its entrance ... Leer más

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  • Roads to Ruin

    The Shocking History of Social Reform

    de E. S. Turner ...
    'It is a salutary thing to look back at some of the reforms which have long been an accepted part of our life, and to examine the opposition, usually bitter and often bizarre, sometimes dishonest but all too often honest, which had to be countered by the restless advocates of 'grandmotherly' legislation...'Contemporary readers of a progressive bent may like to think it elementary that certain ... Leer más

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