Name: Lucienne Boyce
Lives in: Bristol
Contact: lucienne@lucienneboyce.com
Create: In 2013 I published The Bristol Suffragettes, a history of the militant suffrage campaign in Bristol, which includes A Walk with the Bristol Suffragettes and a map. I have also set up a Bristol Suffragette Project on my website, which offers further resources. I also hope that people will get in touch to share their suffragette stories. I have given numerous talks about the women’s campaign, looking at the history and how it relates to activism and women’s status today. I’m currently researching the impact of the First World War on the women’s suffrage movement, with a special interest in the peace movement – which goes back to the days of Greenham Common (when I joined demonstrations though I didn’t live in the camp). In 2006 I completed an MA in English Literature with the Open University, specialising in eighteenth-century women’s literature, particularly the work of Frances Burney and Charlotte Smith.
Other creative stuff: My first historical novel, To The Fair Land, was published in 2012. A thriller set partly in Bristol, it’s about a voyage to the South Seas.
I’m currently working on a murder mystery about a Bow Street Runner investigating a crime near Bath, and doing research for a novel to be set in 1910, during the suffrage campaign.
I’ve written a play about the suffragettes in Bristol (Follow the Colours).
I blog about suffragettes, fiction, the 18th century, theatre, books etc.
I’m a member of the Women’s History Network and the Historical Novel Society, and I set up and run the HNS’s local group for readers and writers which meets monthly at Bristol Central Library http://hnsbristol.wordpress.com/
One thing you love about Feminism... the energy and creativity.
Website - http://www.lucienneboyce.com/
On Twitter - @LucienneWrite
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