"The fight for women's voting rights is told through the writings of two turn-of-the-century British suffragettes - Ethel Smyth and Sarah Benett. Composer and writer Smyth comments on her libertarian life, and her promotion of women's rights through her highly praised opera, The Wreckers. Based on the 1910 window-breaking campaign launched by the Suffragette movement to further their cause, the opera is her most famous work. Also quoting from Benett's diaries, an actor provides a first-person account of the campaign and the hardships suffered by jailed Suffragettes, who were often beaten, raped, and subjected to psychological torture" ("World, Word For Word", VHS, 1997)
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