the presentation is made for the revision of the factual information after reading these books.

1. Auction
suffragette

2. Maud Watts worked in a Glass House Laundry in Holloway in
London.
in Bethnal Green
Edith was a suffragette and her husband’s name is Norman
Ellyn.
Hugh
Alice Haughton was a wife of MP, she was rich.
David Lloyd George was a prime minister in the Parliament.
an important Member of Parliament (MP)
Inspector Steed was a police officer and always kept the law.

3. Holloway was a women’s prison in south London.
north
Bethnal Green is in the East End of London, where working
people lived.
Crowds of people came to the funeral of Violet Miller.
Emily Wilding Davison
Norman Taylor owned the Glass House Laundry and he
wasn’t a nice man.
Maud worked at the laundry since she was eight years old.
seven

4. Emmeline Pankhurst started the Women’s Social and Political
Union (WSPU) in 1903.
The House of Commons is the home of the British Parliament,
where the prime minister makes the country laws.
MPs
By 1900 the campaign to win the vote for women was too
polite.
At first the word ‘suffragette’ appeared in the newspapers
as a joke.
The colours of suffragettes were purple, blue and white.
green

5. Maud Watts met the suffragettes for the first time on Regent
Street.
Maggie, the Violet’s daughter, was thirteen and she worked
at the laundry.
twelve
Sonny asked George to say ‘good night’ to the King George VI.
V
Edith Ellyn didn’t study at university and had no children.
studied
Maud’s mother died when she was 4 because of the accident
with hot water.

6. Maud became the head washer at 17 and in the book she
was 24.
Emily Ellyn knew all about the chemicals because she was
a chemist in the chemistry.
Edyth
Going to the pictures meant going to the art gallery.
the cinema
Mr Haughton didn’t want to spend his money to free all the
suffragettes from prison.
his wife’s
Political prisoners had the right to wear their own clothes in
prison.

7. When Maud thought about her son’s future life, she decided
to become a suffragette.
possible daughter’s
Maud and the other suffragettes were listening to MRS Pankhurst
in Camden Square in north London.
Mrs Pankhurst wasn’t caught at first because she escaped from
the back of the house.
Maud put the hot iron on her employer’s hand accidentally .
purposely
The postboxes were marked in green on the map of London.
red

8. Mr and Mrs Garston took George to live with them in a big
house with a garden.
Drayton
Maud presented Georgie a toy animal as a birthday present.
Mrs Pankhurst’s daughter agreed with the more militant
campaign.
didn’t agree
Edyth, Maud and Violet blew up the half-built house of
Lloyd George.
Emily Davison
Edyth’s suggestion was to wave flags in front of the world’s
cameras.

9. Inspector Steed arrested Maud after Emily’s death.
didn’t arrest
Maud brought Maggie to work in the house of Edyth Ellyn.
Alice Haughton
All women in Britain got their right to vote in 1918.
Only women over the age of 30 who owned houses
In Russia women won the vote in 1917.
In 1914 one woman cut through a famous painting of
Venus in London’s National Gallery with a knife.

10. Auction
suffragetteAN EDUCATION

11. John and Marjorie Mellor are Jenny’s parents.
Jack
Graham is from Twickenham and he’s the same age as Jenny.
Miss Stubbs is Jenny’s favourite teacher of English literature
and she hopes for Jenny’s university career.
At the beginning Jenny had two years more before going to
university.
one
Her family always ate their Sunday lunch at half-past twelve.

12. A beautiful dark red car stopped to let the children cross the
road in front of Jenny.
family
David said that he thought it was a pity that Elgar had spent
much time near Twickenham.
Birmingham
Jenny’s favourite French singer was Juliette Greco.
Graham said to Jenny’s father that after school he wanted to
work for a while.
do some travelling
David invited Jenny to go to a Ravel concert St John’s in Smith
Square.

13. David invited Jenny to come for supper after concert with his
aunt Helen.
friends Helen and Danny
Edward Burne-Jones was a famous British painter and designer
from Pre-Raphaelite group of artists.
During the auction The Tree of Forgiveness was Number 41.
Jenny was a new bidder and bought the painting for David.
Danny
The painting was sold for 300 pounds.
200

14. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a well-known children’s
book from the 1950s written by C.S.Lewis.
Half-a-crown was a coin used before the introduction of
pounds and pence in 1961.
1971
Jenny’s head teacher knew she was going to an auction.
didn’t know
Graham and Jenny’s parents gave Jenny Lain dictionaries for
her 17th birthday.
Jenny discovered in Paris that David is a liar.
in David’s car