Rebellious Writing

The Edwardian era is often romanticised as a tranquil period of garden parties and golden afternoons, but the reality was quite different. The years between 1901 and 1914 were a highly turbulent period of intense social conflict, and this volume draws attention to the writing of the marginalised, including women, minorities and the poor.

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Lauren Alex O Hagan is a postdoctoral researcher at Cardiff University who specialises in deviant inscriptive practices of the early twentieth century, particularly those concerning the working classes. She recently completed a PhD in Language and Communication with a thesis titled «Class, Culture and Conflict in the Edwardian Book Inscription: A Multimodal Ethnohistorical Approach». She has published extensively on literacy and scribal practices, consumption culture and social class in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

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Contents: Lauren Alex O'Hagan: Introduction: Ordinary Writing and Rebellion Ordinary Writing as a Search for Institutional Agency Cara Dobbing: Writing and Rebellion Among Pauper Patients in the Garlands Lunatic Asylum Steven King/Carol Beardmore: Contesting the Workhouse: Life Writing, Children and the Later New Poor Law Maureen Daly Goggin: Bold Bad Ones in Stitches: WSPU Suffragettes' Embroidery Sewn in and about Holloway Prison, 19101912 Ordinary Writing as a Challenge to the Social Order Sarah MacDonald: No Vote, No Census. As women are not persons in the eyes of the law, why count cyphers in the census?: Exploring Rebellion in the 1911 Census Sarah Wise: The Stolen Chapter: James Timewell's Challenge to the Metropolitan Police Lauren Alex O'Hagan: Rethinking the Book Inscription as a Site of Class Struggle Ordinary Writing as a Tool of Sociopolitical Discontent Fanny Louvier: Mastering Their Own Voice: Female Domestic Servants in Edwardian Britain Daniel Renshaw: A Letter to the Editor, a Challenge to the Status Quo? Radical and Transgressive Correspondence in the Anglo-Jewish Press, 19011914 Ann Wilson: Picture Postcard Politics: The Expression of Dissent via Picture Postcards in Edwardian Ireland Ordinary Writing as a Form of Creative Disobedience Danell Jones: How the Extraordinary Becomes Ordinary: A. B. C. Merriman-Labor's African Vision Hadeel J. Azhar: A fire to fill my heart whose name I dare not speak: Surpassing Conventional Heterosexuality in Dollie Radford's Writing Ken Lee and Jodie Matthews: Romani Rebel Writing: George Lazzy Smith's Entrepreneurial Auto-Exoticism Julia Gillen: Afterword.