Suffragettes and Shelley

[jazzy_dave]

Today is another day to celebrate females as this day is the date that British women first got the vote a century ago. Apart from the well known suffragette movement , its militant wing, there was thousands of ordinary women, known as suffragists, who campaigned successfully to have their voices heard too.

The writer Mary Shelley was born into a politically radical family, with an anarchist father and her mother the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. And today is the 200th anniversary of her novel Frankenstein,Mary’s second novel that was published in 1818.

The reason for this is that there are two new books that will be on my wants list -

Hearts and Minds: Suffragettes, Suffragists and How Women Won the Vote
By Jane Robinson

And

In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
By Fiona Sampson