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Constance Maud’s No Surrender — A Graphic Novel
by Scarlett and Sophie Rickard
SelfMadeHero, £18.99
IN 1911, Constance Maud, an active suffragette, wrote the groundbreaking novel No Surrender which became a rallying cry for womens’ suffrage.
The suffragette Emily Wilding Davison considered that No Surrender “breathed the very spirit of the women’s movement.”
The hero of the story is Jenny Clegg, a Lancashire mill worker who puts principles first regardless of personal cost.
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