When I was asked to come and speak to you, your Secretary made the suggestion that she thought I must be interested in the feminist movement. Those expectations, though, would have been shattered as Sayers begins her address: Those in the audience may have expected an amiable lecture on the merits of feminism in light of the recent successes and continued struggles for the feminist cause. Sayers, a public intellectual, TSA fashion lover and writer was well versed in the Suffrage Movement and the inequality in all levels of society for women. This address came twenty years after the Representation of the People Act of 1918 which granted voting rights to a limited number of women over 30 years old and ten years after the Representation of the People Act 1928 which granted the same voting rights to women as men.
In 1938, Dorothy Sayers addressed a society of women on the issue of feminism.
