MORRIS, William. [Emily Duval; Norah Duval].
News From Nowhere or An Epoch of Rest, Being Some Chapters From A Utopian Romance.
New York, Bombay, and Calcutta: Longmans, Green, and Co , 1910.
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English suffragette Norah Duval's copy of William Morris's News From Nowhere; acquired by her during her imprisonment at Aylesbury Prison in 1912 and signed by 24 fellow English suffragettes
English suffragette Norah Duval's copy of William Morris's classic work; given to here in Aylesbury Prison and signed by 24 fellow imprisoned suffragettes. Octavo, original cloth. Eleventh impression. Inscribed on the pastedown, "To Norah Duval in Aylesbury Prison 7/5/12" and signed on the rear endpapers 24 suffragettes also imprisoned at Aylesbury. Norah Duval was a second generation English suffragette, preceded by her mother, Emily Duval. Both were imprisoned on more than one occasion for their participation in violent Women’s Freedom League protests. When Emily was sentenced to six months, in Winston Green Prison for breaking two windows in Regent Street she was force-fed several times before being released to a nursing home. In very good condition. A remarkable piece of history from the often tragic yet ultimately successful English suffragette movement.
In 1872, the fight for women’s suffrage became a national movement in England with the formation of the National Society for Women’s Suffrage and later the more influential National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). In addition to England, women’s suffrage movements in Wales, Scotland and other parts of the United Kingdom gained momentum. By 1906, the movements had begun to shift popular sentiments and a militant campaign began with the formation of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). Known as the suffragettes, its membership and policies were tightly controlled by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia (although Sylvia was eventually expelled). The WSPU membership became known for civil disobedience and direct action. It heckled politicians, held demonstrations and marches, broke the law to force arrests, broke windows in prominent buildings, set fire to post boxes, committed night-time arson of unoccupied houses and churches, and—when imprisoned—went on hunger strike and endured force-feeding.
News From Nowhere or An Epoch of Rest, Being Some Chapters From A Utopian Romance.
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