Literature in Leeds

01 Aug 2025

Curator Patrick Bourne with a dress created as part of theatre show and exhibition Corseted, which centred around the life and work of radical Leeds suffragist Alice Cliff Scatcherd. The dress is based on one worn by Alice when she opened the Morley Friends Adult School in 1894 and sits alongside objects chosen by writer and performer, Becky Cherriman, whose own work touches on themes such as women’s history and industrial working conditions.

Literature in Leeds: Curator Patrick Bourne with a dress created as part of theatre show and exhibition Corseted, which centred around the life and work of radical Leeds suffragist Alice Cliff Scatcherd.
The dress is based on one worn by Alice when she opened the Morley Friends Adult School in 1894 and sits alongside objects chosen by writer and performer, Becky Cherriman, whose own work touches on themes such as women’s history and industrial working conditions.

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