"This collection of essays explores the myriad ways in which the women's suffrage movement in Britain in the nineteenth century and twentieth century engaged with, and was expressed through literature, art and craft, music, drama and cinema. Uniquely, this anthology places developments in the constituent arts side by side, and in dialogue, rather than focusing on a single field in isolation. In so doing, it illustrates how creative endeavours in different artforms converged in support of women's suffrage. Topics encompassed range from the artistic output of such household names as Sylvia Pankhurst and Ethel Smyth, to the recent feature film Suffragette. It also brings to light under-represented figures and neglected works related to the suffrage movement. A wide variety of material is explored, from poems, diaries and newspapers to posters, dress and artefacts to songs, opera, plays and film. Published in the wake of the centenary of many women receiving the parliamentary vote in the UK, this book will appeal to scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, and members of the public interested in the broad areas of women's history and the women's suffrage movement, as well as across the arts disciplines"--
This collection of essays explores the myriad ways in which the women’s suffrage movement in Britain in the nineteenth century and twentieth century engaged with and was expressed through literature, art and craft, music, drama and cinema.
Uniquely, this anthology places developments in the constituent arts side by side, and in dialogue, rather than focusing on a single field in isolation. In so doing, it illustrates how creative endeavours in different artforms converged in support of women’s suffrage. Topics encompassed range from the artistic output of such household names as Sylvia Pankhurst and Ethel Smyth, to the recent feature film Suffragette. It also brings to light under-represented figures and neglected works related to the suffrage movement. A wide variety of material is explored, from poems, diaries and newspapers to posters, dress and artefacts to songs, opera, plays and film.
Published in the wake of the centenary of many women receiving the parliamentary vote in the UK, this book will appeal to scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, and members of the public interested in the broad areas of women’s history and the women’s suffrage movement, as well as across the arts disciplines.
Chapter 1 Womens suffrage and cultural representation: the making of a
movement, Part I Literature,
Chapter 2 Sylvia Pankhurst: poetry and politics,
Chapter 3 A reliable chronicler? Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and the
Pankhurst/Pethick-Lawrence split of 1912,
Chapter 4 Suffragette prison
narratives: the foreignisation of the carceral experience,
Chapter 5 The
Scottish suffragettes and the press, Part II The visual arts and visual
identity,
Chapter 6 Suffrage identity: declaring ones colours,
Chapter 7
Painting a political identity: women and the House of Commons, c.18181834,
Chapter 8 Victorian paintings under attack: the earliest act of suffrage
iconoclasm (1913),
Chapter 9 The art of suffrage propaganda: with particular
reference to the work of Surrey artists, Part III Music,
Chapter 10 Ethel
Smyth, music and the suffragette movement: reconsidering The Boatswains Mate
as feminist opera,
Chapter 11 It seemed to me my first duty to signify I was
one of the fighters: Ethel Smyths two years of suffrage activities and her
suffrage music,
Chapter 12 The image of the Suffragette in Vernon Lees Music
and its Lovers, Part IV Stage and screen,
Chapter 13 Will you, wont you,
will you, wont you, join the suffrage dance?: reframing Alice in Wonderland
for Edwardian activists,
Chapter 14 Radical actors: the Womens Social and
Political Unions staging of the suffrage campaign,
Chapter 15 Suffrage
history on our screens: the TV series Shoulder to Shoulder and the feature
film Suffragette: Whose stories do they tell?
Christopher Wiley is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Surrey, UK. He is the author of many journal articles and book chapters, and the co-editor of volumes including Researching and Writing on Contemporary Art and Artists (2020), Transnational Perspectives on Artists Lives (2020), Writing About Contemporary Musicians (2021) and The Routledge Companion to Autoethnography and Self-Reflexivity in Music Studies (2021).
Lucy Ella Rose is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Surrey, UK. She is the author of the book Suffragist Artists in Partnership: Gender, Word and Image (2018), and her work focuses on neglected women in nineteenth-century creative partnerships. She presents and publishes on Victorian literature, art, culture and feminisms, and is currently working on feminist networks at the fin de siècle.
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