The Messenger

The Messenger is a tale from which is adapted suffragette Elizabeth Robins's famous play, Votes for Women! Robins's was the first play to bring the «street politics of women's suffrage to the stage.» Votes for Women! led to a surge in suffrage theater. Excerpt: «After all, we aren't yet living in the millennium, Julian. What I'm afraid of is that someday you'll be wanting to carry these notions of yours beyond the bounds of what's reasonable.» «You mean,» said the other young man, with a flash in his dark eyes, «you mean you're afraid I may just chance to be honest in my 'notions,' as you call them, of a scheme of social justice.»