Until I devoted a chapter to the subject in one of my books, Dynamite Treason and Plot: Terrorism in Victorian and Edwardian London, History Press 2011, hardly any mention was to be found in any published books of suffragette terrorism. I later wrote a book entirely about the suffragettes and their use of bombing and arson;  Suffragette Bombers: Britain's Forgotten Terrorists, ​Pen & Sword 2014. This was a sober and factual account of what actions had been taken by the suffragettes between 1912 and 1914. One author, who had researched a militant suffragette as part of her PhD studies, decided to pretend that nothing had ever been written about suffragettes and their terrorist activities and in April 2018, her book Death in Ten Minutes was published; Hodder & Stoughton 2018. Although her book was listed as being non-fiction, the author, Fern Riddell, had actually produced a bizarre fantasy which owed more to her imagination than it did any historical research.
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