From The Times, October 21, 1924Book of the Day. Miss Annie Kenney’s life has been so bound up with the women’s suffrage movement that her reminiscences give as clear an account of the history of “The Cause” as anyone could hope to offer. With Miss Christabel Pankhurst she may claim to have been the pioneer of militancy. The old Suffrage Society, under the steady leadership of Mrs Fawcett, had plodded on for more than forty years using constitutional methods, and Miss Kenney says, it was their failure to extract more than vague and dubious promises from those in power which led to the adoption of the militant policy. Miss Kenney writes with unfaltering conviction.

Source: The Times October 21, 2024 00:35 UTC