Rebel Girls: The Untold Story of the Suffragettes [audio 9min]

Dora Thewlis was just 16 when she was arrested on a protest march in London in 1907. A weaver from Huddersfield, she was dubbed the 'Baby Suffragette'. Lillian Lenton, a dancer, vowed to burn two buildings a week until women won the vote. Lavena Saltonstall, who left school at 10, conducted a long-running and amusing war of words with a lawyer in the letter pages of her local paper on the point of women's suffrage. These are just three of the women who's stories have been re-discovered and told in full for the first time by Jill Liddington in her new book Rebel Girls: How Votes for Women Changed Edwardian Lives (Virago Press Ltd. )Mostly young, working class and from Yorkshire, they risked everything for the cause.