SHARP, Evelyn.

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Rebel Women. First collected edition, the copy of the women's suffrage campaigner Hugh Franklin, with his initials on the half-title. The anthology describes Sharp's experiences of selling suffrage newspapers on the street and running the Kensington WSPU shop. Some of the stories were first published in the Manchester Guardian and the Daily Chronicle before 1910.Hugh Franklin (1889-1962) joined the Men's League for Women's Suffrage in 1909. His militant actions during the suffrage campaign saw him arrested three times, and included attacking Winston Churchill with a dog whip. He went on hunger strike each time he was incarcerated and was force-fed on multiple occasions. He later married the suffragette Elsie Duval.Evelyn Sharp (1869-1955) was an editor for Votes for Women in 1912 and undertook sole editorship in 1914. Sharp was an established author before joining the suffrage cause and contributed to The Pall Mall Gazette and The Yellow Book, among other journals. She was arrested twice for the suffrage cause; first in November 1911 for protesting the retraction of the Conciliation Bill by breaking the windows of the War Office, and again in July 1913 having protested the "Cat and Mouse" Act.

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