Tag: Elizabeth Fry
To Freedom’s Cause – A Sense of Responsibility
Writing about a real person inevitably brings with it a huge sense of responsibility. As a writer and as an actor my aim has always been to capture the essence of that person. Women such as Emily Wilding Davison, Elizabeth Fry and Mary Queen of Scots, who I have previously written about, attract admirers and […]
Banknotes: storm in a tea cup?
THE PRISON REFORMER & THE SUFFRAGETTE Last week Kay Renner and I ran a series of schools workshops in Northumberland, as part of the 2013 Emily Inspires! programme of events. An element of the workshops explored what it felt like to challenge the status quo, as suffragette Emily Wilding Davison did one hundred years ago. It […]
