KP/AK/5/2/4 - Letter, Jessie Kenney to Charlotte Marsh, 22/3/1951

Reference code

KP/AK/5/2/4

Level of description

Item

Title

Letter, Jessie Kenney to Charlotte Marsh, 22/3/1951

Date/s

22/3/1951

Quantity & Format

1 Letters (typescript)

Creator

Kenney, Jessie

Creator

Marsh, Charlotte, 1887-1961

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

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.

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Existence and location of copies

A digital copy may be viewed at Suffragette Stories: https://suffragettestories.omeka.net/items/show/69

KP - The Kenney Papers
- KP/AK - Annie Kenney
  - KP/AK/5 - Films; Radio and TV programmes
    - KP/AK/5/2 - BBC Radio Play, 'The Women's Rebellion'
      - KP/AK/5/2/4 - Letter, Jessie Kenney to Charlotte Marsh, 22/3/1951

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