TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allen,Nicola
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - The Early Post-Suffrage Fiction of Constance Nina Boyle
SN  - 9783031526732
AV  - PN770-779 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Literature
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Feminism and literature
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women
KW  - History
KW  - Twentieth-Century Literature
KW  - Feminist Literary Theory
KW  - Fiction Literature
KW  - Women's History / History of Gender
N1  - 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
N2  - 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)
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52673-2
ER  -