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My book is called The Good Daughters, but for a very long time while I was writing my first drafts, I called it The Jail Keeper's Daughter. One of my main characters, Emily, is in fact the daughter of the warden of Holloway Prison, the notorious jail where suffragettes were imprisoned in London. When Emily comes face to face with a young suffragette, Charlotte, on the other side of her father's prison bars, she's forced to confront the similarity of their lives, and begins to work in secret on the behalf of the women's suffrage campaign. Eventually, that title didn't serve the story well enough, because it's bigger than just Emily. The Good Daughters is about four wildly different young women at the frontlines of the battle for women’s suffrage. All four women weigh their familial and societal expectations with their own ambitions and sense of justice. That's how...[read on]
Q&A with Brigitte Dale.
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