The Early Post-Suffrage Fiction of Constance Nina Boyle

This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of the fiction of Constance Antonina (Nina) Boyle: a suffragette described in one obituary as 'second only to Mrs Pankhurst'. Boyle was a well-known campaigner and was the first woman to stand for selection as a candidate in an election in the UK. However, her novels have been all but forgotten. This study explores Boyle's early fiction and focuses on her first five novels - each of which represents a retelling of established narratives. It explores how Boyle used her fiction to voice her radical gender politics within a culture that was becoming increasingly hostile to even discussing women's rights outside of the extension of the franchise. This book will be of interest to scholars of women's suffrage as well as anyone interested in popular fiction of the 1920s.

About the author

Nicola Allen is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Co-Course Leader for MA English at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. She is author of Marginality in the Contemporary British Novel (2008).

Product details

• Authors: Nicola Allen
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 03.03.2025
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9783031526756
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3152675-6
• Pages: 208
• Illustrations: XV, 208 p. 1 illus.
• Dimensions (packing): 14.8 x 1.2 x 21 cm
• Weight (packing): 296 g
• Subjects: Literaturtheorie, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Gender Studies: Gruppen, Women's Writing, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Women's History / History of Gender, Feminist Literary Theory, Suffragette afterlives, Women's Freedom League, Canon formation, Constance Antonina Boyle