Miss Muriel Matters
Robert Wainwright
ABC Books, 2017
376 pages
In 1909, Muriel Matters planned to rain on the parade of King Edward VII to the ceremonial opening of parliament. She aimed to drop a shower of 鈥淰otes for Women鈥 leaflets on his head from a chartered air balloon trailing streamers in the white, gold and green of the Women鈥檚 Freedom League (WFL).