![]() ![]() ![]() May, who comes from a middle-class, progressive family, is curious, intellectual, fierce, and unapologetically queer-or, in her words, “Sapphic”. (It was only in 1928, with the Equal Suffrage Act, that women were given exactly the same voting rights as men.)Īs my own small way of celebrating this event, I decided to read Sally Nicholls’s Things a Bright Girl Can Do, which tells the story of three teenagers who take part in different ways in the fight for women’s suffrage (and who are also affected in different ways by World War One). This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, which gave British women the right vote-though only women who were relatively wealthy and/or educated. ![]()
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