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martha_is_reading's review
2.0
This work is a valuable part of social history and I'm genuinely glad that it exists as the author was someone who achieved great things as part of the movement for women's suffrage. However, as a book, I didn't enjoy it as it was incredibly dry and at times felt like a list of names, dates and parliamentary bills. At only 100 pages, it's not a bad one to try if you want to know the history of the movement, but it isn't particularly compelling reading. It also didn't help that the period that it covers ended before the 1918 act that gave some women the right to vote, so the ending was a bit abrupt. At least, it ended in quite a hopeful way because Fawcett believed them to be 'on the eve of the fulfilment on our hopes' but in reality success was still six years (and a world war) away, which deflated that sense of optimism somewhat.
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