New Heroines for New Causes
How Provincial Women Promoted a Revisionist History Through Post-Suffrage Pageants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4348252 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy Binns (University of Lancashire, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 221-246 |
| Publication date | 2018-02-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612025.2017.1313806 |
| OpenAlex | W2604124297 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
The selection and promotion of powerful role models was a major source of inspiration during the suffrage movement, with figures such as Joan of Arc invoked as justifying women’s rights. This research shows the tradition continued post-1914, but with a different focus. Well over a hundred amateur pageants of noble women were staged with a changing pantheon reflecting women’s new roles and aspirations. These events were staged by both religious and secular groups throughout Britain, but were most common in the small industrial towns of the Pennines, the South West and North East where Nonconformity was strong. The pageants varied from a couple of dozen performers to 1000, with newspapers frequently praising their elaborate costumes and historical accuracy. Though certain formats and characters appeared regularly, narrative choices often reflected the organisers’ tastes, sometimes introducing local heroines or reclaiming the Bible as a source of inspiration for powerful women
Amateur · Art · Literature · Narrative · Newspaper · Nonconformity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Suffrage · Women's suffrage · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law
Making of the English Working Class
Prophetic Sons and Daughters
The pankhursts and the war
Making a Spectacle of Suffrage
An Era of Domesticity’? Histories of Women and Gender in Interwar Britain
Creating the 'suffragette spirit
Our Freedom and Its Results
Introduction
Repressed and thwarted, or bearer of the new world? the spinster in inter-war feminist discourses
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |