If the WSPU was, as they styled themselves, an army of willing and dedicated soldiers, Davison served as one of a regiment of skilled sharp shooters who guarded the truth of the movement’s goals and means, working and writing at the periphery of the WSPU’s intellectual territory, living in a liminal position engaging the enemy on a daily basis.Įmily Davison’s letters from 1912 reflect both her own and the suffrage movement’s tenuous circumstances. But the work involved in such exchanges as Maud references through her fictional event, took time, energy, and commitment.
In the novel No Surrender by Constance Elizabeth Maud, a conversation between an opponent of woman suffrage and a suffragist turns on an exchange of letters in The Sunday Times initiated by an “anti,” and rebutted by a suffragist who wrote to lay out the truth, answering the original letter point for point.Īmong the events and themes that Maud weaves into her story of the awakening of two young women to the social, economic, and personal transformation woman suffrage could offer to all of British society, the inclusion of the verbal dimension of the struggle carried out in the pages of various national and local newspapers is a small part.
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