Glossop Labour Club is to celebrate the life of a local suffragette and socialist through song and storytelling.
'The Hard Way' is the story of Hannah Mitchell (1872 to 1956), which will be told by Louise Jordan at the Chapel Street club on Saturday 9 April. It will start at 8pm and doors will open at 7.30pm.
Hannah was born at Alport Castles Farm, not far from The Snake Inn.
She left home at the age of 14 to escape a difficult relationship with her mother, and walked over the hills to Glossop where she became an apprentice seamstress, later moving to Manchester.
Despite having little formal schooling, she educated herself and developed an interest in socialist ideas. She was a speaker at early Independent Labour Party meetings and her activity with the Pankhursts and Women’s Suffrage movement led to her incarceration briefly in Strangeways Prison.
Later in life, she served as a councillor on Manchester City Council, and as a magistrate. She also wrote for The Northern Voice and the Manchester Guardian, as well as her autobiography on which this production is based.
Tickets, which are £10, are available from the Labour Club and from George Street Bookshop, or online from wegottickets.
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