No Surrender (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Constance Elizabeth Maud

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331541573 ISBN 13: 9781331541578

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2016

Synopsis

Excerpt from No Surrender

Once upon a time God made a fair green valley in the North Country. The surrounding hills were wooded with noble trees, the green pastures were watered by fresh clear streams. Overhead the blue arch of heaven was swept by sweet, clean, pine-scented winds. The people of this country were thrifty and industrious, spinning and delving, sowing and reaping, and, taken all round, as happy and contented as any on the face of this earth, where men and women are born each to their share of educational sorrow, as surely as the sparks fly upward.

But with the turning of Time's wheel came a change. The Juggernaut-car of so-called progress rolled over that country, crushing out all its fair beauty. Gone now are the woods and the green pastures. Stunted and blighted the scarce trees and flowers. The once life-giving winds are laden with coal-dust and grit, which chokes the green life at its birth. The streams and rivers run murky and foul, and the sky hangs like a grey pall, blotting out the sun, which tries in vain to pierce through the dense atmosphere. For this is the land of the great cotton mills and the factories.

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From the Publisher

'No Surrender was first published at the height of the women's suffrage movement in Britain and centres on the involvement in the campaign of Jenny Clegg, a Lancashire mill-girl, and Mary O'Neil, a minor aristocrat. The novel, which offers a rare literary insight into the often heroic activities of its proponents, came out in November 1911.'

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331541573
• ISBN 13: 9781331541578
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338