Throw it out the window
Bee Wilson: Lady Constance Lytton, 16 July 2015
Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr
by Lyndsey Jenkins.
Biteback, 282 pp., £20, March 2015,978 1 84954 795 6 Show More
by Lyndsey Jenkins.
Biteback, 282 pp., £20, March 2015,
“... four decades, she had led a quiet, dutiful and extremely posh existence. Her life up to 1909, Lyndsey Jenkins writes in her sympathetic and extremely well-told account, ‘had given no hint of the rebellion to come’. She threw stones, agitated, got arrested and starved herself. She may not have been a charismatic leader in the Pankhurst mould, but ... ”
