Book info

• Title March, Women, March
• Author Lucinda Hawksley
• Year 2013
• Genre History

This fascinating book uses anecdotes and accounts by both famous and hitherto lesser known suffragettes and suffragists to explore how the voice of women came to be heard throughout the land in the pursuit of equal votes for females. Using diary extracts and letters, the main protagonists of the women's movement are brought back to life as Lucinda Dickens Hawksley explores how they were portayed in literature and art as well as the media reports of the day.

Thoughts

I’ve tried to read a few historical books and this is one of the first that has grabbed my attention so I can see it through to the end. I don’t know if it’s the subject matter or the writing but either way, it was an interesting read and an educational one as well.

Documenting the story of women searching, campaigning and battling for equal terms, laws and votes as men with suffragettes the key to the story. I’ve heard of people chaining themselves to the railings, of course, but this goes far deeper. I hadn’t realised the fight for equality started so early on, and that it took so long!

A fascinating book, well balanced and showing the good, the bad and the ugly of the suffragist and suffragette movement, and those that opposed the cause.

Rating: 4 / 5