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The suffragette movement in H.G. Wells's "Ann Veronica" and May Sinclair's "The Tree of Heaven"

2016

In H.G. Wells’s Ann Yeronica (1909), the eponymous heroine embraces new womanhood and a rangę of feminisms in her search for life. Ann Veronica attends suffrage and other radical meetings in London once she has left her father and home in order to “live”. She is arrested during a raid on the House of Commons, while trying to defend an elderly suffragette. However, the harshness of prison life forces Ann Veronica to see the error of her ways and to seek a reconciliation with her father upon her release. Here, militant suffragism is portrayed as a turning point. It is a reaction that brings down all the powers of patriarchy upon her and causes her to accept “life” as it is rather than seek to…