Sally Nicholls Author Visit
As a follow-up to recent World Book Day celebrations, Headington Rye Oxford welcomed award-winning author Sally Nicholls into school again to talk to students in Years 7 to 9.
Her historical fiction books are among the most-borrowed fiction books in the Library, with her most popular titles covering the early part of the twentieth-century and the women’s suffrage movement.
Sally talked to the girls about the real women involved in these campaigns and how she linked her research to the characters in her books, who represented different aspects of the movement; Quakers, pacifists, suffragettes, suffragists, upper classes, poverty, LGBTQ community and employment as well as the effect of World War I on the women.
The audience heard audio clips from some women who had been involved in the campaigns which described some of the activists’ campaigns and how some women were force fed using painful tubes.
The students asked some really insightful questions at the end of each talk and were able to come and meet Sally in the Library at lunchtime and have their books signed.
All of her books are available to borrow from the School Library.
