Beaten, imprisoned and force-fed: how suffragette made it on to the big screen
Suffragette hit the UK cinemas this week. The star-studded film tells the story of an ordinary working-class woman, Maud Watts, a laundry worker in the East End of London. The movie follows her struggle, and sees the fight for women to be granted the vote through her eyes. Director Sarah Gavron has published an article about the making of the film in Women’s History Review. In it, she explains what motivated her to make the story come alive on screen: “The struggle for women’s enfranchisement in the United Kingdom hasn’t been told through fiction in cinema. ”The critically