My first awareness of the women’s suffrage movement came from the sequence in the Disney film Mary Poppins (1964), which does not appear in P.L. Do writers focus only on the militant actions of the suffragettes or are readers also made aware of the less dramatic actions of the suffragists? Do any patterns emerge in the type of fictional characters developed, in particular friendships between women from privileged backgrounds and working-class women? They include books by Marjorie Darke, Julie Hearn, Geraldine Symons, Geoffrey Trease and Jacqueline Wilson, and it’s interesting to see what picture they give of this significant period in British women’s history. The women’s suffrage movement has been the focus of several children’s novels published during the last 40 years.
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