Dr Béatrice Bijon explores the British suffragette movement through the lens of the papers of influential feminist Bessie Rischbieth.

 

The talk will be followed by an exhibition viewing. 

 

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Dr Bijon is the curator of the Collections-in-Focus exhibition Deeds Not Words: Women's Suffrage in Britain, currently on display in the Treasures Gallery. She is a scholar of English literature and women’s history and a Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University. She has edited several books on literature and travel, and is co-author of Suffragistes et suffragettes (Suffragists and Suffragettes) recently published in her native France.