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Above: Scholar Claudia Tobin performs ‘Scoring Suffrage’ in Florence. Photo by Marco Berni Right: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s portrait of his sister Christina, 1866, private collection. Source: Wikiart 14 Restoration Conversations • Winter 2023
The Words We’d Like to Meet Scholar Claudia Tobin on ‘Scoring Suffrage’ CChristina Rossetti, Constance Smedley, Ethel Smyth, Vernon Lee, Cicely Hamilton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna Akmatova are just some of the women writers and social reformers forming part of Florence’s “Scoring Suffrage” performance. This brief conversation with British scholar Claudia Tobin will send you to the book shelf, to re-read ‘old friends’ or to reach for new voices you’ve never heard before. Amidst plays, poems, novellas, essays and letters, Claudia’s interview is an invitation to seek out the words of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century women. Their hopes, whether shattered or still shining bright, are awaiting discovery – in their own words. Were all the women featured social activists? The starting point for the Florence performance was the suffrage moment, but I think it’s important to note that these women are united by an extraordinary commitment to their art and the causes they supported, but they didn’t share the same political persuasions, and that message – even by itself – is relevant to today’s world. They were all ‘fighting spirits’ and they fought for suffrage or the right to express themselves, but they do not belong to one side of the political spectrum or a single political party, which became clear as our research unfolded. Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), for instance, was devoted to poetry – to the point that she didn’t marry to pursue it. She was religiously devout and supported humanitarian causes, striving to follow the Florence Nightingale model, and her poems are full of redemptive female Winter 2023 • Restoration Conversations 15
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