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    Seven Colours of the Rainbow: Women's Suffrage - Warriors All!
    Seven Colours of the Rainbow: Women's Suffrage - Warriors All!
    Seven Colours of the Rainbow: Women's Suffrage - Warriors All!
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    Seven Colours of the Rainbow: Women's Suffrage - Warriors All!

    By Wilma Hayes

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    The rainbow; a lovely cheerful place from which to write. Rainbow colours are such a part of our lives. But where are the stories?

    There are many philosophical associations with these colours but I chose the simple human needs and rights that yoga teaches. As I looked at them, these rights seemed to lend themselves to the struggles that women have faced over time but writing from that perspective would require a very broad brush to do them justice. So, I chose the single, if huge, struggle for women's suffrage. As I researched it I quickly felt in deep awe of the massive struggle this was. These women were warriors.

    Each of the colours became a deepening part of this larger story. Each of the chapters is a story in its own right; but each looks at the movement from a slightly different perspective. They advance through time from 1905 to 1914. Almost all of the events described actually happened.

    The colours are of course Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.

    Red represents freedom from persecution and therefore the story is about the need for physical safety. It begins in 1905 with a woman who escapes from domestic abuse, but finds abuse again in the early days of the active campaigning of the suffrage movement.

    Orange relates to the need to use our individual creativity for a better good. In 1907 a young woman with no demands on her life style makes friends with a young working class woman who wants to accomplish great things in her life. Drawing them in, the suffrage movement develops at a very rapid rate for both of them.

    Yellow represents the human need for wisdom and so this story looks at an individual's self-determination and belief in herself. A working class woman in a provincial town discovers a greater need where she lives and in 1908 takes dramatic action to meet it. The suffrage movement has given her impetus and confidence.

    Green is the colour of nature and what is more natural than our need to give and receive love. The story looks at compassion and how we look after each other. Told from the point of view of women warders in Holloway we see the treatment and determination of the suffragettes held there in 1909 and the care and love they hold for each other.

    Blue is about our need to express our beliefs. It looks at our abilities to communicate and express ourselves. Not all the women seeking the vote were suffragettes and here we meet a policeman's wife introduced to the suffragists. She sees how activist demonstrations are policed in 1910. It is not how she thinks it is.

    Indigo is more introspective and is concerned with our need to know ourselves, our spirituality. It is the colour of infinity, intuition and perception. Here we see the events from the point of view of a civil servant at the House of Commons in 1911/12.

    The last is violet which represents our need for peace and acceptance. The movement has become violent now and the word terrorism has been applied to it. The priest who witnesses it wants to understand what is happening and how it could have become so violent. But what is happening in 1914 is the beginning of the Great War.

    I am proudest of this novella because, as a result of proof-reading them for me, a quiet friend of mine was moved to go to London to take part in a political rally for the first time in her life! Praise indeed!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilma Hayes
    Release dateOct 16, 2019
    ISBN9781521236420
    Seven Colours of the Rainbow: Women's Suffrage - Warriors All!
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    Wilma Hayes

    'The Welsh Marches is an evocative place. Full of mystery, history, and tiny old houses, it leads easily into Wales - a perfect place to write and to set romantic novels with mysteries and crimes embedded in them.'This is how Wilma summarises the inspiration for her four novels in the Welsh Marches series and the forty-nine short stories which follow and make up Sevens, Stories to Commute By.Luckily for her, she was able to escape to this scenic area and begin to write. It is not a gift that many people are given, but with a tiny cottage of her own, an accompanying cottage garden and a husband who is handy with a computer and a coffee pot, the opportunity was too good to ignore.

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      Seven Colours of the Rainbow - Wilma Hayes

      SEVEN COLOURS OF THE RAINBOW

      by Wilma Hayes

      A short novella about women's suffrage - warriors all!

      SEVEN COLOURS OF THE RAINBOW

      by Wilma Hayes

      Published by Wilma Hayes at Smashwords

      Copyright 2019

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favourite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      ISBN 978-1-5212364-2-0

      All Kinds of Seven

      Whoever thought that writing forty-nine short stories was a good idea needs to lie down in a dark room for a short while until it passes. That would be me, and I didn’t.

      Seven is a lovely number and when I began these it seemed like an achievable task. The first little novella was quite good fun. I think you can see how it progressed from there and soon seven little novellas with seven chapters or stories each became the goal. It was a long slog.

      The stories or chapters are all of similar length and I thought that they would make nice stories for a commute taking 10 to 15 minutes each, so 2 in a 20 or 30 minute commute and so on. Or a short or longer tea break if you prefer! Naturally everyone reads at different rates, so these times are my best guess.

      Some of the stories in each set are like chapters in a book, in that one logically follows the other; some are quite individual tales but with commonality. None of them follow the Seven theme too strictly, but stories are like that; they wander off piste from time to time.

      Naturally, I like some stories better than others and I am sure you will too. But I hope that they will help your commute to work or give you a few minutes for a cuppa.

      See www.wilmahayes.co.uk for more information about me or other books.

      Wilma Hayes

      SEVEN COLOURS OF THE RAINBOW

      The rainbow; a lovely cheerful place from which to write. Rainbow colours are such a part of our lives. But where are the stories?

      There are many philosophical associations with these colours but I chose the simple human needs and rights that yoga teaches. As I looked at them, these rights seemed to lend themselves to the struggles that women have faced over time but writing from that perspective would require a very broad brush to do them justice. So, I chose the single, if huge, struggle for women's suffrage. As I researched it I quickly felt in deep awe of the massive struggle this was. These women were warriors.

      Each of the colours become a deepening part of this larger story. Each of the sevens is a story in its own right; but each looks at the movement from a slightly different perspective. They advance through time from 1905 to 1914. Almost all of the events described actually happened.

      The colours are of course Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.

      Red represents freedom from persecution and therefore the story is about the need for physical safety. It begins in 1905 with a woman who escapes from domestic abuse, but finds abuse again in the beginning of the suffrage movement.

      Orange relates to the need to use our individual creativity for a better good. In 1907 a young woman with no demands on her life style makes friends with a young working-class woman who wants to accomplish great things in her life. Drawing them in, the suffrage movement develops at a very rapid rate for both of them.

      Yellow represents the human need for wisdom and so this story looks at an individual's self-determination and belief in herself. A working-class woman in a provincial town discovers a greater need where she lives and in 1908 takes dramatic action to meet it. The suffrage movement has given her impetus and confidence.

      Green is the colour of nature and what is more natural than our need to give and receive love. The story looks at compassion and how we look after each other. Told from the point of view of women warders in Holloway we see the treatment and determination of the Suffragettes held there in 1909 and the care and love they hold for each other.

      Blue is about our need to express our beliefs. It looks at our abilities to communicate and express ourselves. Not all the women seeking the vote were suffragettes and here we meet a policeman's wife introduced to the suffragists. She sees how activist demonstrations are policed in 1910. It is not how she thinks it is.

      Indigo is more introspective and is concerned with our need to know ourselves, our spirituality. It is the colour of infinity, intuition and perception. Here we see the events from the point of view of a civil servant at the House of Commons in 1911/12.

      The last is violet which represents our need for peace and acceptance. The movement has become violent now and the word terrorism has been applied to it. The priest who witnesses it wants to know what is happening, but what is happening in 1914 is the beginning of the Great War.

      I am proudest of this set of short stories because, as a result of proof reading them for me, a quiet friend of mine was moved to go to London to take part in a political rally for the first time in her life! Praise indeed!

      Wilma Hayes

      Table of Contents

      Red

      Orange

      Yellow

      Green

      Blue

      Indigo

      Violet

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      The Colour Red

      The Need for Safety

      Red is the colour that represents our relationship with the earth. In this connection we find safety and security from want, persecution, or physical need. With that we can become what we are meant to be.

      LONDON 1905

      Hanson's head was almost lost in his big hat, and the collar of his dark oilskin cape was pulled up to his ears; the rain and swirling mist driving him into what little comfort there was to be had on the exposed seat of the light carriage. With a footman holding an umbrella, Anna hurried down the steps of her friend's house and into the waiting Brougham. No sane person should be out on a night like this. Neither horse nor driver wanted to be in it a moment longer than necessary so as soon as the carriage door closed, they drove off and at a good speed.

      The sudden reaction of the horse shocked the driver from his huddle on the seat and brought the carriage to a shuddering slide and stop on the cobbled paving. Anna seized the strap to stop herself pitching forward off the seat, then dropped the window and looked out into the dark rain and dripping mist. Hanson was leaping from the box to inspect a bundle lying on the roadway; the anxious horse stamping in fright at the unknown pile.

      'What is it?' Anna pulled her coat collar closer to her throat as she leaned further out of the window.

      'A body, Ma'am.' Hanson squatted down to be sure. 'It's a young woman and I think she's still alive, Ma'am.'

      With no consideration for her expensive dress or hat, Anna opened the carriage door, jumped from the step taking her umbrella from the floor. 'Don't look Ma'am. Please go back inside where it’s dry. I'll get someone from one of the houses to move her.' He wound the reins around the painted brake handle on the side of his footwell. The well-appointed town houses were in a crescent and Hanson ran towards the curving steps of the nearest, then down to the servants' areas below.

      Anna saw a young woman on the wet paving, dressed in what was left of poor clothing. Her blouse was torn; she wore no hat or jacket and one of her shoes was missing. Her skirt and stockings were wet and muddy with tears and holes. Her nose was bleeding and there were cuts on her face. The rain was washing the blood into streaks on her cheek and chin. 'Hello? Hello?' Anna opened her umbrella, held it over the woman and tried to make her understand that someone was with her. There was a low moan in reply.

      'What happened to you? Where do you live?' The woman shook her head rubbing her cheek into the grit on the road. She tried to sit up, but her hand slipped on the cobbles and she fell back, Anna caught her shoulder. It felt thin under her torn blouse. Although now beginning to show swelling, her eyes opened

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