The Call The Call

The Call

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Publisher Description

The Call is a 1924 novel about a female scientist who abandons her research work (in chemistry) to be a suffragette.  As Elizabeth Day writes in her Preface: ‘The Call gives a rare insight into a woman’s domestic life in the first two decades of the 20th century ... domestic details about running a house are, most unusually, given their due alongside Ursula’s political actions, elegantly making the point that a woman’s work behind closed doors is just as worthy of our attention as what goes on in the wider world.’ By making political points in the guise of a ‘woman’s novel’, the author stunningly reveals her commitment to feminism.’ Although it has been ignored for nearly a hundred years, it is an important, and extremely readable, book. Edith Zangwill (1874–1945) - her husband was the writer Israel Zangwill - bases the detailed descriptions of Ursula’s working life on the life of Edith Zangwill’s stepmother, Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923), a physicist who became an expert on the electric arc.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2018
October 18
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
495
Pages
PUBLISHER
Persephone Books Ltd
SELLER
Persephone Books Ltd
SIZE
1.8
MB
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