When Literature Became a Weapon

Elizabeth Robins Diary Podcast

May 17 2023 • 18 mins

In the battle for women’s suffrage, Elizabeth and some friends formed the Women Writers Suffrage League.  Their weapon? The pen.  Over the next decade the group would flood the market with suffrage literature of all types such as plays, novels, editorials, and poetry. How did they come up with this strategy? And more importantly, did it work?


Elizabeth’s play Votes for Women!

Elizabeth’s novel The Convert

Elizabeth’s essays Way Stations

Suffrage Collection Treacherous Texts

Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day


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Credits:Producer & Editor Lief Thomason, Odd Life Studios

Recorded at Profound Revelation Studios

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Grant funding assistance by Florida Humanities

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