Burning to Get the Vote: The Women's Suffrage Movement in Central Buckinghamshire 1904-1914

<h3><em>Burning to get the Vote</em> was the message left by suffragettes in March 1913 after they fire-bombed Saunderton Station.</h3><p>This book draws on original research to re-create the suffrage campaign in Buckinghamshire of a century ago and brings alive the struggles of some notorious and some less well-known figures in the women's fight for the vote.<p><i> Muriel Matters Hugh Franklin</i> and <i>Frances Dove</i> were key figures in this local and national struggle which involved public meetings propaganda and a pilgrimage as well as more extreme methods: tax evasion window-smashing and arson. <br></p><p>This is a popular but thorough local history of the suffrage movement unearthing previously undiscovered evidence and tracing the trajectories of both the law-abiding National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and the militant Women's Social &amp; Political Union in the county.<br></p>