Follow post contains affiliate links that won’t change the way you shop but might make us a little bit of money… that we will probably spend on more books. Many thanks to Scholastic for sending a copy of this book for review. You can buy the Princess and the Suffragette from Scholastic where (at the time of publishing this post) you also receive a free copy of A Little Princess. /rebates/2f97814071634992fReturn-Secret-Garden-Holly-Webb-14071634932fplp&. Medium softcover, first UK edition, third printing, 176gms, 227 pgs. Many thanks to Holly for taking the time to answer our questions. Return to Frances Hodgson Burnetts timeless classic, The Secret Garden, in this magical sequel by bestselling author Holly Webb. We’ve come such a long way, but women are still fighting for equal pay, for better division of childcare and in some countries still for political representation, and even control over their own bodies. I found this really shocking as I was researching. Return to Frances Hodgson Burnetts timeless classic, The Secret Garden, in this magical sequel by best-selling author Holly Webb. I really hope that Lottie and Sally’s stories will give them some sense of how hard the struggle was – how completely horrifying the idea of women’s suffrage was to so many people, and how few rights women actually had. Children reading your book today will have been born nearly a century after The Representation of the People Act, what sort of messages do you hope they will take from The Princess and the Suffragette?
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