Reason or Rebellion

Reason or Rebellion - Women's fight to vote in Devon
by Pamela Vass

On August 4th 1913, flames lit up the sky over a Devon mansion. The papers filled with speculation that suffragettes were to blame. Truth or fiction?

This fascinating story tells of Devon women faced with a choice, to join the law-abiding suffragists or the militant suffragettes. 

Together they held MPs to account, joined mass rallies in London, defied the government, endured the indignity and agony of imprisonment ... and joined the bigger sleepover the region has ever known.
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This is their story. 

Clovelly  - suffragettes ambush the Prime Minister
Sidmouth - the anti-suffragists hold sway
Plymouth - Arson in Devonport
Newton Abbot - Braving mob rule
Lands End to London - Women walk for the vote
Exeter - First Devonhunger strikers
Ilfracombe - an island of militancy 
Torquay and Topsham - Women evade the census
Lynton - explosive events hit the headlines

Print length: 339 pages 
Language: English
Publisher: Boundstonebooks

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