Morris Dancing Quotes

“Mary Neal began the Morris dance revival. For nearly a decade she drove it forward. She strove not for personal gain or achievement but to right the many injustices suffered by women in the years before the First World War, as much through dance as through her militant activism. The early years of the revival coincided with political turmoil. That the Morris revival took off at all was due to her radicalism and involvement in the Labour movement. It was not a coincidence that the Esperance danced at WSPU events or that high-profile suffragettes led the dancers; Mary’s commitment to equality and social justice was why she had formed the Esperance and the Esperance Guild. And it was her radicalism that kickstarted the Morris revival.”
― kathryn atherton, Mary Neal and the Suffragettes Who Saved Morris Dancing