Illustration, Narrative and The Suffragette: An Illustrative Enquiry

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Through investigation of the illustrated prison diary of suffragette Katie Gliddon, Mireille Fauchon explores illustration as a social research tool, and creates within this book itself a model of practice-based enquiry. Visual methods - sketches, collage, mixed media, photographs and literary forms, like poetry, ficto-critical writing and prose, are used to illuminate the characteristics of the subject matter. Drawing on archival study, anecdotal experience, practical research methods, narratives and illustration form of research, this book brings together themes of feminism, materiality and social history. Ideal for those studying illustration and research methods, Fauchon explores through both Gliddon's and her own illustrations and writings not only a case study of an individual woman who aimed to change society, she also creates a unique tool exemplifying how social research can become a work of narrative illustration in itself.

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Mireille Fauchon is course leader of the MA Illustration course at Ravensbourne University, UK as well as an illustrator and researcher. Her specialisms include archival research, sociocultural narratives, and the preservation of anecdotal informal histories, particularly those deemed difficult to access. She has published papers discussing contemporary illustration, her co-authored text Illustration Research Methods is published by Bloomsbury (2021). Mireille is illustration editor of the literary journal, AMBIT.