William - an Englishman

Cicely Hamilton

2024-04 · Macmillan Collector's Library · Skaito Stephanie Racine

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A satirical view of the suffragette movement and an unblinking yet compassionate story that chronicles the impact of the First World War on an ordinary young couple, William – an Englishman by Cicely Hamilton won the first Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse prize in 1919.

Written in a hospital tent to the sound of gunfire and shells falling, Cicely Hamilton drew on her experiences working in France during WW1 to tell the story of William Tully and his new bride Griselda, who are wrenched away from their all-consuming interests – socialism and votes for women – and plunged into the almost dream-like horror of war. As brutal tragedy strikes, their attitude to both pacifism and patriotism is altered and their lives are changed forever.

William - An Englishman is part of the Persephone Audiobook Collection, a series of forgotten classics that includes neglected fiction and non-fiction by women writers. First published in 1919, this edition includes a preface by writer and MD of Persephone Books, Nicola Beauman.

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Cicely Hamilton was born Cicely Hammill in 1872. Her father was in the army so when her mother died she was looked after by unkind strangers. She was educated at Malvern and in Germany, taught for two years but, disliking institutions, turned to acting in provincial rep as well as writing adventure stories for cheap periodicals. She believed in equal pay and birth control, being opposed to sentimentality about marriage and motherhood, and her ‘personal revolt was feminist rather than suffragist.’ Besides William – An Englishman, she wrote over twenty plays, half a dozen novels, and a polemic called Marriage as a Trade. She died in 1952.