Edith Ayrton Zangwill’s The Call: A New Scholarly Edition

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Edith Ayrton Zangwill’s 1924 novel The Call is widely regarded as one of the most important suffrage novels of the early 20th century. Including authoritative notes and commentary throughout, this is the first comprehensive scholarly edition of the novel. The Call tells the story of a young chemist, Ursula Winfield, who comes of age in the years before the start of the First World War. Confronted by the gross injustices faced by women and the working class in early 20th-century Britain, she is drawn inexorably and with increasing militancy into the suffragette movement. The story charts the conflict between her political commitments and her personal life as the Great War approaches. Alongside the definitive text of the novel, this edition also includes contextual historical documents – from contemporary reviews of the novel to newspaper coverage of the suffragette movement – and critical chapters by leading scholars exploring the world of the novel Cover Contents Figures Editorial Preface to Modernist Archives Contributor Biographies Acknowledgments Introduction Stephanie J. Brown The Call Edith Ayrton Zangwill Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fivteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Chapter Nineteen Chapter Twenty Chapter Twenty One Chapter Twenty Two Chapter Twenty Three Chapter Twenty Four Chapter Twenty Five Chapter Twenty Six Chapter Twenty Seven Chapter Twenty Eight Notes on the Text Reviews of The call Critical Essays On The Call The Call in the Context of Edith Ayrton Zangwill’s Fiction Meri-Jane Rochelson The Call and the History of Suffrage Activism Maroula Joannou The Call’s Interwar View of Women’s Suffrage Stephanie J. Brown Teaching Suffrage Barbara Green Bibliography Further Reading