In June 1889, Mrs Humphry Ward's open letter «An Appeal Against Female Suffrage» was published with over a hundred other female signatories against the extension of Parliamentary suffrage to women. Inflamed by this «most despicable piece of treachery ever perpetrated towards women by women», Corbett wrote and published New Amazonia.In her novel, Corbett envisions a successful suffragette movement eventually giving rise to a breed of highly evolved «Amazonians» who turn Ireland into a...
In June 1889, Mrs Humphry Ward's open letter «An Appeal Against Female Suffrage» was published with over a hundred other female signatories against the extension of Parliamentary suffrage to women. Inflamed by this «most despicable piece of treachery ever perpetrated towards women by women», Corbett wrote and published New Amazonia.In her novel, Corbett envisions a successful suffragette movement eventually giving rise to a breed of highly evolved «Amazonians» who turn Ireland into a...
Annie Cory is a woman in love but also a feisty detective on a mission to solve a peculiar case involving—diamond, murder and of course villains! Excerpt: "Confound that upset! I shall be two minutes behind time—I wish I had walked all the way, instead of trusting to the supposed extra speed of a 'bus, when the streets are so slippery that horses cannot keep their feet." Thus soliloquised Harley Riddell, ruefully, as he hurriedly picked his way through the somewhat aggressive...
Annie Cory is a woman in love but also a feisty detective on a mission to solve a peculiar case involving—diamond, murder and of course villains! Excerpt: "Confound that upset! I shall be two minutes behind time—I wish I had walked all the way, instead of trusting to the supposed extra speed of a 'bus, when the streets are so slippery that horses cannot keep their feet." Thus soliloquised Harley Riddell, ruefully, as he hurriedly picked his way through the somewhat aggressive...
