Comments on: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary

By: Catofstripes

Catofstripes — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:47:34 +0000

Thank you for this, it’s fascinating.

By: Genevieve Graham

Genevieve Graham — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:27:05 +0000

What an amazing find for me! I’m in the middle of writing my latest novel, set through WW1, Suffragettes, and the Halifax Explosion. This is wonderful. Thanks.

By: Elaine Whittaker

Elaine Whittaker — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:40:40 +0000

What a wonderful find and fantastic that women (and men) can read of the struggles for equality in the not so distant past. Unfortunately in some parts of the world today the struggle goes on and we must never stop fighting for equality for all people.

By: Libby Hall

Libby Hall — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:01:09 +0000

What a magnificent job Elizabeth Crawford has done in selecting and transcribing Parry Frye’s not-always-easy handwriting, and in sharing with us an historic treasure.

How exciting finding that damp hoard must have been!

I can’t wait to get my copy of the book.

By: Angella-Dee

Angella-Dee — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:28:49 +0000

Wonderful to read. I also really liked the rest of the stuff. Tickets, posters and programmes, etc. Really brings the diaries to life. I do the same almost 100 years later. I am proud to be feminist and diary keeper too today.

By: Peter Holford

Peter Holford — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:00:52 +0000

The hope is that all such documents are valued for this sort of insight they can give to the events of the time. The primary resources are always very rewarding. My gg-grandmother’s brother emigrated from Bethnal Green to the USA in about 1830 and his autobiography, written in about 1850, turned up in a loft in Virginia. It gave some great insights into the bald facts of our family history.

By: Carolyn Badcock - nee Hooper

Carolyn Badcock - nee Hooper — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:41:39 +0000

What a brilliant find this diary was! Imagine how many other wonderful items/books etc are hidden away in basements or old trunks dying to be found. I feel enormously privileged to own my mother’s autograph book which her mother gave her for Christmas 1937. It has entries done by so many relatives including my great-grandmother from Roscommon, Ireland. To me it’s priceless.

Thanks, gentle author – yet again.

Carolyn

By: Greg Tingey

Greg Tingey — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:53:50 +0000

Their fight is not over yet …
There are STILL City firms who will/rather get in a hugely expensive MAN, from outside, rather than promote one of, or even both of the perfectly competent women they already have – at lower cost, incidentally.
( Hint – it odesn’t help if this firm is infected with Catholicism )
And, yes, I am speaking of a specific case – BUT – no names, no libel suits or summary dismissals out of misogynistic spite, either.