Pen Friends: 1 war, 11 women, 200,000 words event image at Friargate Theatre, Lower Friargate, York, YO1 9SL
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Pen Friends: 1 war, 11 women, 200,000 words

7:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Friargate Theatre, Lower Friargate, York, YO1 9SL

About This Event

In 1914, 11 girls leaving the Mount School in York invented the WhatsApp Group - a round robin notebook of letters that continued for decades, allowing us to eavesdrop on the lives of young Quaker women entering a world at war: fighting for suffrage, throwing themselves into social action and political activism.