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Friends of Alice Wheeldon

Friends of Alice Wheeldon

Rowbotham, Sheila

Hardcover

General Political SciencePlays

ISBN10: 1583675558
ISBN13: 9781583675557
Publisher: Monthly Review Pr
Published: Sep 22 2015
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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 célèbre--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.

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