Scandal, Secrets & Suffragettes – Vote for Murder is FREE on Amazon Kindle until 4th March 2022. Get your copy here https://geni.us/VFM2 It’s 1911, and the women of Ipswich are making a peaceful stand against the unfairness of the voting system. Suffragist Louisa Russell joins the census evasion protest at the local museum. While exploring …
Vote for Murder – new & updated It’s 1911, and the women of Ipswich are making a peaceful stand against the unfairness of the voting system. Suffragist Louisa Russell joins the census evasion protest at the Old Museum in Ipswich. In a quiet moment, she explores the back rooms of the museum and finds a …
A number of poisons are referenced in Vote for Murder, as one might expect in a murder mystery. Mary Cage, despite her poverty, was an opium eater. This use of drugs, among the poorest in Victorian society, might seem unlikely but opium was, in fact, readily available and extremely cheap. To put it in context, …
Checking through my Goodreads books yesterday, I realised how deeply entrenched my book tastes have become. Everything I enjoy most is set in England and involves a good old-fashioned murder, preferably not too graphic. Not surprising really since I was bought up on a diet of Agatha Christie & P G Wodehouse. This intransigent reading …
It is interesting to read reports of early attempts to promote the case for women’s suffrage. In this extract from the Bury Free Press, July 1871, Millicent Garrett Fawcett argues against multiple reasons given by men (and anti-suffrage women) against emancipation. She counters all arguments rationally and eloquently, but forty years later the government of the day …
Women’s suffrage was newsworthy and accounts of suffragette militant exploits were often reported nationally, usually negatively. The cruel treatment of those suffragists engaged in acts of peaceful protest is often conveniently forgotten. The two accounts below, taken from The Framlingham News, portray the shocking treatments suffragettes were subjected to in the course of their fight for the vote. Framlingham Weekly …
When war broke out in 1914, all militant suffragette action ceased. From that point, all focus was on the war effort. The following extract is typical of the patriotism of both suffragists & suffragettes. Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser 15 October 1915 The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (Non-Party and Non-Militant) Contains over 602 …
It is fascinating to read historical newspaper accounts of women’s emancipation which expose attitudes markedly different than those today. Two contrasting newspaper articles about liberal politicians show remarkable differences in values, from which today’s politicians could draw a lesson. The first article, reported in The Bury & Norwich Post 14 June 1898, shows a politician …
During my research for Vote for Murder, I came across the following extract in a letter from P Jones to his friend and cousin Major Jones in which he mentioned murderess Mary Emily Cage, my inspiration for the book. The letter entitled, The brutality and cruelty of the British people , describes several British murders during 1851 including two Suffolk murders & the …
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