Book Description

"Rebel women" by Evelyn Sharp is the first biography of an unapologetic rebel and a wonderful writer. The stories revealed various situations that suffragettes went through. The book provides the feminist point of view of the author in regards to society. Evelyn Sharp's story captures the changes in possibilities for talented Victorian women who lived into the mid-twentieth century. Excerpt: "Funny, isn't it?" said the young man on the top of the omnibus. "No," said the young woman from whom he appeared to expect an answer, "I don't think it is funny." "Take care," said the young man's friend, nudging him, "perhaps she's one of them!" Everybody within hearing laughed, except the woman, who did not seem to be aware that they were talking about her. She was on her feet, steadying herself by grasping the back of the seat in front of her, and her eyes, non-committal in their lack of expression, were bent on the roaring, restless crowd that surged backwards and forwards in the Square below, where progress was gradually becoming an impossibility due to the stream of traffic struggling towards Whitehall."