Letter from Jessie Kenney to Charlotte Marsh, 1951
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Title
Letter from Jessie Kenney to Charlotte Marsh, 1951
Subject
Reputation
Description
In this letter, written on 22 March 1951, Jessie Kenney replies to a note from Charlotte Marsh about the representation of the suffragette movement in the 1951 BBC radio play “The Women’s Rebellion”, scripted by Jill Craigie. Jessie reports her own and the Kenney family’s displeasure with the way the piece captured Annie and her role in the militant struggle. “To me,” Jessie writes, “it was a caricature, somewhat vulgarised, and a belittling of the part she played in the Suffragette Movement”. She compares the respectful treatment her brother, Rowland Kenney (1882-1961), the head of the Foreign Office’s Norwegian department at the time, receives for his work and writings with Annie’s, who is always portrayed as a “mill girl” and “left to languish in that perpetual shade”. Following the broadcast of “The Women’s Rebellion”, the Kenneys registered their protest at Annie’s treatment and lack of consultation with the family during the production process and the programme was never aired again.
Creator
Kenney, Jessie
Source
Kenney Papers, University of East (UEA) Anglia Archives
Publisher
University of East Anglia
Date
22 March 1951
Rights
Copyright: Estate of Jessie Kenney. All rights reserved. Included here by kind permission of Warwick Kenney-Taylor (son of Annie Kenney) and later generations of the Kenney and Taylor families.
Format
jpeg image file
Language
English (United Kingdom)
Identifier
KP/AK/5/2
Text Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Letter
Collection
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Citation
Kenney, Jessie, “Letter from Jessie Kenney to Charlotte Marsh, 1951,” Suffragette Stories, accessed April 26, 2024, https://suffragettestories.omeka.net/items/show/69.