Friends of Alice Wheeldon Contributor(s): Rowbotham, Sheila (Author) |
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ISBN: 158367554X ISBN-13: 9781583675540 Publisher: Monthly Review Press OUR PRICE: $21.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 822.914 |
LCCN: 2015027554 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 8.4" (0.60 lbs) 240 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In early 1917, as Britain was bogged down in a war it feared would never end, Alice Wheeldon, her two daughters, and her son were brought to trial and imprisoned for plotting the assassination of Prime Minister Lloyd George, who they believed had betrayed the suffrage movement. In this highly evocative and haunting play, British historian and feminist Sheila Rowbotham illuminates the lives and struggles of those who opposed the war. The Wheeldons' controversial trial became something of a cause c l bre--a show trial at the height of the First World War--based on fabricated evidence from a criminally insane fantasist, "Alex Gordon," who was working for an undercover intelligence agency. It was a travesty of justice. Friends of Alice Wheeldon is combined here with Rowbotham's extended essay, "Rebel Networks in the First World War," that gives a historical overview of the political and social forces that converged upon the Wheeldon family and friends. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rowbotham, Sheila: - Sheila Rowbotham is the author of the widely acclaimed A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States and Promise of a Dream. |