Votes for Women
Votes for Women Author: Elizabeth Robins
First Performance: 1907, London
Published: 1909
Genre: Pol. drama in 3 acts
Setting: Wynnstay House, Hertfordshire, Trafalgar Square, and Eaton Square, London, 1900s
Cast: 7m, 7f, extras
Lord John Wynnstay has invited politicians of various persuasions, together with their wives, to come and stay. His wife and some of her friends, and a mysterious single woman Miss Vida Levering, are involved in charities for homeless women and, despite the sneering attitude of the men, are sympathetic to the suffrage movement. It is revealed that Miss Levering, a ‘fallen woman’, had ten years previously been persuaded to have an abortion and is therefore strongly committed to the cause of women. Lord John's niece Jean (or Beatrice) Dunbarton is sufficiently interested to travel to...
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