The suffrage story, a working-class slant
I don’t really get the graphic novel. I am neither the target audience nor a fan of the art form. That said, Scarlett and Sophie Rickard’s rendition of Constance Maud’s classic women’s suffrage novel from 1911, No Surrender , is a job well done on several levels. The Rickard sisters have taken an important social realist novel about the battle of votes for women written in 1911 and breathed new life into it for a new, younger readership in the twenty first century. And that’s a good thing because, despite No Surrender being sometimes poor in prose, it is rich in social history. Written by an...