Women’s Suffrage in Word, Image, Music, Stage and Screen

Christopher Wiley is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Surrey, UK. He is the author of many journal articles and book chapters, and the co-editor of volumes including Researching and Writing on Contemporary Art and Artists (2020), Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives (2020), Writing About Contemporary Musicians (2021) and The Routledge Companion to Autoethnography and Self-Reflexivity in Music Studies (2021). Lucy Ella Rose is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Surrey, UK. She is the author of the book Suffragist Artists in Partnership: Gender, Word and Image (2018), and her work focuses on neglected women in nineteenth-century creative partnerships. She presents and publishes on Victorian literature, art, culture and feminisms, and is currently working on feminist networks at the fin de siècle.

Chapter 1 Women’s suffrage and cultural representation: the making of a movement, Part I Literature, Chapter 2 Sylvia Pankhurst: poetry and politics, Chapter 3 A reliable chronicler? Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and the Pankhurst/Pethick-Lawrence split of 1912, Chapter 4 Suffragette prison narratives: the foreignisation of the carceral experience, Chapter 5 The Scottish suffragettes and the press, Part II The visual arts and visual identity, Chapter 6 Suffrage identity: declaring one’s colours, Chapter 7 Painting a political identity: women and the House of Commons, c.1818–1834, Chapter 8 Victorian paintings under attack: the earliest act of suffrage iconoclasm (1913), Chapter 9 The art of suffrage propaganda: with particular reference to the work of Surrey artists, Part III Music, Chapter 10 Ethel Smyth, music and the suffragette movement: reconsidering The Boatswain’s Mate as feminist opera, Chapter 11 ‘It seemed to me my first duty to signify I was one of the fighters’: Ethel Smyth’s two years of suffrage activities and her suffrage music, Chapter 12 The image of the Suffragette in Vernon Lee’s Music and its Lovers, Part IV Stage and screen, Chapter 13 ‘Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, join the suffrage dance?’: reframing Alice in Wonderland for Edwardian activists, Chapter 14 Radical actors: the Women’s Social and Political Union’s staging of the suffrage campaign, Chapter 15 Suffrage history on our screens: the TV series Shoulder to Shoulder and the feature film Suffragette: Whose stories do they tell?