Rebel Women
BY
EVELYN SHARP
NEW YORK
JOHN LANE COMPANY
MCMX
By John Lane Company
the Manchester Guardian, the Daily
Chronicle, and Votes for Women.
Contents
| Page | ||
|---|---|---|
| I. | The Women at the Gate | 7 |
| II. | To Prison while the Sun Shines | 20 |
| III. | Shaking Hands with the Middle Ages | 27 |
| IV. | Filling the War Chest | 41 |
| V. | The Conversion of Penelope's Mother | 51 |
| VI. | At a Street Corner | 59 |
| VII. | The Crank of all the Ages | 68 |
| VIII. | Patrolling the Gutter | 75 |
| IX. | The Black Spot of the Constituency | 83 |
| X. | "Votes for Women—Forward!" | 92 |
| XI. | The Person who cannot Escape | 101 |
| XII. | The Daughter who Stays at Home | 110 |
| XIII. | The Game that wasn't Cricket | 118 |
| XIV. | Dissension in the Home | 123 |
Rebel Women
I
The Women at the Gate
"Funny, isn't it?" said the young man on thetop of the omnibus.
"No," said the young woman from whom heappeared to expect an answer, "I don't think it isfunny."
"Take care," said the young man's friend, nudginghim, "perhaps she's one of them!"
Everybody within hearing laughed, except thewoman, who did not seem to be aware that theywere talking about her. She was on her feet,steadying herself by grasping the back of the seatin front of her, and her eyes, non-committal in theirlack of expression, were bent on the roaring, restlesscrowd that surged backwards and forwards inthe Square below, where progress was gradually becomingan impossibility ...