
Rejecting the deadening conventions of their Victorian elders the rebel girls demanded new freedoms & new rights. They took their suffrage message out to the remotest Yorkshire dales & fishing harbours to win Edwardian hearts & minds. 16-year-old Huddersfield weaver Dora Thewlis on arrest was catapulted onto the tabloid front-pages as Baby Suffragette. Her life was transformed. Dancer Lilian Lenton waited till her twenty-first birthday
- then determined to burn two buildings a week until the Liberal government granted women the vote. Rebel Girls shows how this daring campaigning shifted from community suffragettes to militant mavericks.