Suffragettes: A Story of Three Women

by Gertrude Colmore

Sally, Edith, and Geraldine, three New Englanders from completely different backgrounds, find a common cause in the Womens Suffrage Movement.

319 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1984

Reviews

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a really fascinating book. Written in 1911, in the thick of the Suffragette action, it really gives a vivid feel for the time. I loved the three women - posh Lady Hill, who disguises her privilege to undergo the prison conditions for 'normal' girls; Edith Carstairs, the traditional girl waiting to be married who slowly accepts and becomes involved in the movement; and Sally Simmonds, the working class maid who puts everything on the line (her job, her boyfriend, her life) to protest and fight.

It wasn't brilliantly written, but it was readable and absorbing, and more than that, deeply inspiring.

[Aphie · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's strange to be reading this 100 years after it was written, with its descriptions of the awful things done to the British suffragettes. I wish I could write its author a loveletter from the future, telling her how far we've come, and how fgar there still is to go.
It's so easy to forget the inhumanity we've been capable of, and what people thought was "normal" in the past.