God Save The Suffragettes: An Analysis of Tracy Chevalier's 'Falling Angels' Through the Women's Suffrage (original) (raw)
2017, Boğaziçi University, Democracy and Civil Rights in Literature Conference
Since I am so fond of the historical movement called “Women’s Suffrage” occured in England in early Edwardian period, I would like to write a paper and make a presentatiton , titled “God Save The Suffragettes” ,which bounds the groundbreaking incident and literature. I believe that the right to vote and its struggle heretofore have a major role in the process of women’s civil rights and becoming equally democratic in the face of government. Therefore, I strongly think that this real-life progress has affected the term’s and future world of letters regarding its widespread impacts and attitudes toward the gender politics. In addition I would like to higlight this relation between the movement and the literature via a fictional novel named “Falling Angels” by renowned author Tracy Chevalier, known by her famous historical novel “Girl With A Pearl Earring”n first published in 2000.
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