This is an excerpt from The Courage Game, the moment where Gladys is involved in the mass window-breaking in central London organized by Christabel Pankhurst. I approached cautiously, dodging vehicles – far more vans and smart cars than were yet evident in Birmingham. The vehicles screened me from view, so that I was able to …
I have been asked to write a play version of the book and the idea has both intrigued me and made me feel that I’m in danger of becoming a one-horse wonder. What will happen to The Lonely God [the story of Hades and Persephone] and Oh, Caroline, the book about Caroline Herschel astronomer, both …
A few weeks ago I went to La Rochelle in France to talk to five schools there, where I talked more about the genesis of the book itself than the history of suffrage, and compared the French journey towards suffrage with that of the UK. I was wracked with nerves before this one but the …