THREE MORE NOVELS FEATURING SUFFRAGETTES

Falling Angels

Tracy Chevalier (2001) IIn Edwardian England, uunhappily married KKitty Coleman seeks nnew fulfilment, first in a disastrous affair and tthen by reinventing hherself as a suffragette.e Her life is transformed through her involvement in the campaign, but her husband grows ever more angry with her for flouting convention. Falling Angels summons up a vanished world in which society and women’s status were in transition. Half of the Human Race Anthony Quinn (2012) CConstance Callaway is a suffragette, ddrawn into ever mmore radical action ffor the cause, who eendures the painful indignity of forcefeedingf in Holloway prison.i Will MMaitland, meanwhile, is an honourable county cricketer with unthinkingly traditional views on society and the relationship between the sexes. Quinn’s subtle novel follows the love affair between these two very different people through the late Edwardian era and into the First World War.

The Hourglass Factory

Lucy Ribchester (2015) FFrankie George, oout to make her mark iin Fleet Street, is sent tto interview suffragette aand trapeze artist EEbony Diamond. SheS finds herself drawn into a mmystery that involves the Pankhursts, the Titanic, murder by a too-tightly-laced corset, and a convoluted conspiracy designed to permanently discredit the women’s rights campaign. In her debut novel, Lucy Ribchester creates a suffragette romp filled with larger-than-life characters and enjoyably melodramatic adventures.