How the Vote was Won. Text of the Play.

Published by [Letchworth:] The Garden City Press, [1909]

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First edition, the copy of the women's suffrage campaigner Hugh Franklin, with his initials on the front wrapper. The one-act play is based on Hamilton's illustrated pamphlet of the same name, which was published earlier the same year. Franklin (1889-1962) joined the Men's League for Women's Suffrage in 1909. He was imprisoned three times for his militant actions during the women's suffrage campaign, which included attacking Winston Churchill with a dog whip. He went on hunger strike each time he was incarcerated and was force-fed on multiple occasions. He later married the suffragette Elsie Duval. How the Vote was Won is "a modern version of Lysistrata set at the time of a women's general strike and ridicules the notion of coverture whereby English law assumed a woman to come under the protection of her nearest male relative" (ODNB). Octavo, pp. 32. Page of press reviews at rear. Original green wrappers, front and rear lettered in black, wire-stitched as issued. A few chips to spine, faint damp stains to wrappers, a little foxing to the front, extending to title page, couple of internal short closed tears at staples: a very good copy. …

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Title
How the Vote was Won. Text of the Play.
Author
HAMILTON, Cicely, & Christopher St John.
Publisher
[Letchworth:] The Garden City Press, [1909]
Edition
1st Edition

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