03286nam a22005535i 4500 978-3-031-52673-2 DE-He213 20251030111430.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240217s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031526732 978-3-031-52673-2 10.1007/978-3-031-52673-2 doi PN770-779 DSBH bicssc LIT024050 bisacsh DSBH thema Allen, Nicola. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 71181 The Early Post-Suffrage Fiction of Constance Nina Boyle [electronic resource] / by Nicola Allen. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XV, 208 p. 1 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1. Introduction: Walking into the Future -- 2 From Campaigner to Novelist: The Lives of Constance Antonina Boyle -- 3 Out of the Frying Pan -- 4 What Became of Mr Desmond -- 5 Nor All Thy Tears -- 6 Anna's -- 7 The Stranger Within the Gates -- 8 Conclusion: Deeds and Words. This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of the fiction of Constance Antonina (Nina) Boyle: a suffragette described in one obituary as 'second only to Mrs Pankhurst'. Boyle was a well-known campaigner and was the first woman to stand for selection as a candidate in an election in the UK. However, her novels have been all but forgotten. This study explores Boyle's early fiction and focuses on her first five novels - each of which represents a retelling of established narratives. It explores how Boyle used her fiction to voice her radical gender politics within a culture that was becoming increasingly hostile to even discussing women's rights outside of the extension of the franchise. This book will be of interest to scholars of women's suffrage as well as anyone interested in popular fiction of the 1920s. Nicola Allen is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Co-Course Leader for MA English at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. She is author of Marginality in the Contemporary British Novel (2008). Literature, Modern 20th century. Literature Philosophy. 66322 Feminism and literature. 66323 Fiction. Women History. 68068 Twentieth-Century Literature. Feminist Literary Theory. 66326 Fiction Literature. Women's History / History of Gender. 68069 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031526725 Printed edition: 9783031526749 Printed edition: 9783031526756 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52673-2 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 57684 57684