Deeds,Words and Drama: A Review of the Film <Emphasis Type="Italic">Suffragette</Emphasis> (2015)

Review of the film Suffragette (2015), written by Abi Morgan and directed by Sarah Gavron, considering its use of fiction to explore women’s history, comparing it to other dramatic treatments of the suffrage campaign, its historical accuracy and its portrayal of the legal and social position of women, and wives, during the early twentieth century.