The Regiment of Women : neo-Edwardian suffrage narratives and women writers of the 1910s

Edwards, Sarah (2019) The Regiment of Women : neo-Edwardian suffrage narratives and women writers of the 1910s. Women's Writing. ISSN 0969-9082 (https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2019.1704524)

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Abstract

This essay will re-evaluate several women writers of the 1910s as neo-Edwardian writers, by examining a range of fictional and autobiographical texts that are set in the recent past of the Edwardian period. It will focus in particular on three suffragette narratives that were published in the pre-World War One years - Constance Maud, No Surrender (1911), Gertrude Colmore, Suffragette Sally (1911) and Lady Constance Lytton, Prisons and Prisoners: some personal experiences (1914) – that seek to represent, and evaluate, the movement’s activities during the Edwardian decade and which have not yet been the subject of sustained critical comparison. By identifying some distinctive formal and thematic tropes in these texts, I aim to explore their continuing interest to different scholarly communities and to develop a fresh reading of these works’ literary, and wider cultural and social, provenance as neo-Edwardian texts.

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  • Item type:Article
    ID code:70660
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    19 December 2019
    Published
    19 December 2019
    Published Online
    23 November 2019
    Accepted
    Keywords:neo-edwardian, suffragette narratives, autobiography, 1910s, English literature, Arts and Humanities(all), Literature and Literary Theory, Medicine(all)
    Subjects:Language and Literature > English literature
    Department:Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Humanities > English
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:28 Nov 2019 12:57
    Last modified:14 Jun 2022 01:45
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/70660
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