“A class act: Constance Lytton and the political, literary and dramatic dynamics of suffrage prison writings”
In 1910 suffragette Lady Constance Lytton disguised herself as a working-class seamstress, Jane Warton. Her cross-class masquerade revealed the snobbery and injustice of prison authorities’ treatment of suffragettes: as Lady Constance Lytton she was diagnosed with a weak heart and placed in the hosp...
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Taylor and Francis
2019
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