Cicely Mary Hamilton is best remembered for her plays, which often featured feminist themes. Her literary work is characterized by an emphasis on social critique and the advocacy of women's rights, reflecting her active role in the suffrage movement. Hamilton's writing explores the position of women in society, highlighting their inner strength and aspirations.
This fascinating book offers a unique perspective on Irish society and culture from the viewpoint of an Englishwoman, providing valuable insights into the complex historical and political dynamics that have shaped modern Ireland.
Marriage as a Trade, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.
From one of the earliest feminist science fiction writers, a novel that envisions the fall of civilization—and the plight of the modern woman in a post-apocalyptic wilderness. When war breaks out in Europe, British civilization collapses overnight. The ironically named protagonist must learn to survive by his wits in a new Britain. When we first meet Savage, he is a complacent civil servant, primarily concerned with romancing his girlfriend. During the brief war, in which both sides use population displacement as a terrible strategic weapon, Savage must battle his fellow countrymen. He shacks up with an ignorant young woman in a forest hut—a kind of inverse Garden of Eden, where no one is happy. Eventually, he sets off in search of other survivors . . . only to discover a primitive society where science and technology have come to be regarded with superstitious awe and terror. A pioneering feminist, Hamilton offers a warning about the degraded state of modern women, who—being “unhandy, unresourceful, superficial”—would suffer a particularly sad fate in a postapocalyptic social order.
What is love and how do we love ourselves more? Why do we judge and blame ourselves and can we begin to move to a higher way? In this book Helen Hamilton takes us through the stages of love from conditional love, unconditional love and even love before duality and separateness. We will also explore how to love others and the world in general from a loving understanding. Isn?t it time for you to experience self-acceptance and love?
Drawing upon previously unseen archival material, this book brings to life the story of the Actresses' Franchise League from 1908-1958, building a picture of this diverse, exciting and innovative organisation that opens up and extends previous scholarship of the suffrage movement, and of political and feminist networks in twentieth century theatre. -- .
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This anthology presents eight exciting comic pieces that arose from the the Suffrage Movement. Terrific for performance, it provides a variety of strong female parts, while also offering invaluable sources from the period, bringing history to life.
This novel, first published in 1907, brings to life Robin's experience and that of her colleagues, Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst, in the story of Vida Levering, an upper-class British woman "converted" to the working-class suffrage movement. In a suspenseful plot, Robins contrasts the witty dialogue of elegant drawing rooms with the rough-and-tumble outdoor meetings of Trafalgar Square, recreating them almost word for word from actual accounts. Ultimately, Vida begins to make her own first speeches and out of the tragic events of her past devises a means of effecting women's political freedom. Jane Marcus puts this "funny, moving, and beautifully structured novel" in a class with Virginia Woolf's Night and Day.
The astonishing women involved in the Actresses Franchise League set up their own theatre companies and engaged with the battle for the vote by writing and performing campaigning plays all over the country. They launched themselves onto the political stage with their satirical plays, sketches and monologues whilst at the same time challenging the staid conventions of the Edwardian Theatre of the day. The legacy of their inspiring work to change both theatre and society has survived in the political theatre, agit-prop and verbatim theatre we know today. Introduced and set in an historical context by Dr Susan Croft together with an extensive Chronology of suffrage drama 1907-1914.Full playtexts from the following:’How the Vote was Won’ by Cicely Hamilton and Chris St. John’The Apple’ by Inez Bensusan’Jim s Leg’ by L.S. Phibbs’Votes for Women’ by Elizabeth Robins’At the Gates’ by Alice Chapin’In the Workhouse’ by Margaret Wynne Nevinson’A Change of Tenant’ by Helen Margaret Nightingale.