Best Suffragette
This memoir offers a firsthand account of Emmeline Pankhurst’s leadership within the British Women’s Social and Political Union. Written in 1914, it documents her experiences organizing and directing the suffragette movement's increasingly militant tactics during the fight for women’s suffrage. The...
How the Vote Was Won began as a 1909 suffrage story by Cicely Hamilton and was adapted into a one-act play with Christopher St. John. The satirical drama opens during a general women's strike: women who have supported themselves withdraw their labor and require male relatives to support them, prompt...
Suffs is a musical written by Shaina Taub that chronicles the final years of the American suffrage movement and the campaign for the 19th Amendment. Premiering in 2022 at The Public Theater in New York, the production centers on the diverse coalition of women who fought for the right to vote. The na...
