is pro-suffrage: for its time it was RADICALLY feminist. And yes, it achieved this by parodying the suffragettes and poking fun at some of them, but supporting the underlying struggle. I was so frustrated by the reader who couldn’t see beyond the outdated humor to the underlying message.

The reader expected a feminist book to show only positive female role models. Women and girls could only be contrasted with men and boys, not with other women and girls. Women good, men bad - that, to her, is feminism.