HAMILTON, Cicely, & Christopher St John.

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How the Vote was Won. Text of the Play. First edition, the copy of the women's suffrage campaigner Hugh Franklin, with his initials on the front wrapper. The one-act play is based on Hamilton's illustrated pamphlet of the same name, which was published earlier the same year. Franklin (1889-1962) joined the Men's League for Women's Suffrage in 1909. He was imprisoned three times for his militant actions during the women's suffrage campaign, which 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.How the Vote was Won is "a modern version of Lysistrata set at the time of a women's general strike and ridicules the notion of coverture whereby English law assumed a woman to come under the protection of her nearest male relative" (ODNB).

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