Sophie and Scarlett Rickard have created another beautiful, accessible, graphic edition of a classic novel, Maud Constance's enduring suffrage story 'No Surrender'. Previously they published an acclaimed adaptation of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.

This lovely novel of the 1911 suffrage classic brings to life the exciting story of gender, class, the ethics of civil disobedience and the right to be equal before the law – offering an accessible, entertaining and rewarding read to a new generation. Jenny Clegg is a Lancashire mill-hand with dreams of equality and freedom. Along with friends from every walk of life, she brings the fight to the Prime Minister’s door – and suffers for her cause.

Written by a Suffragette from the heat of the battle, this novel is a vivid social record of a tumultuous era, told through the lives of a broad cast of powerful characters.

No Surrender was first published in 1911, the year women across the country boycotted the British census by spoiling forms with the words “I don’t count so I won’t be counted” and “no persons here, only women.” 

Pioneering Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison loved it, pronouncing that it “breathes the very spirit of our women’s movement”.

Sophie and Scarlett will be talking about their work and the vital relevance of No Surrender today.

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