

I think I’d have wanted to be part of the Suffragette movement, but like Opal, I don’t necessarily agree with all their actions.

If you had lived in Edwardian times do you think that you would have been a suffragette? I had to do some basic research, reading Edwardian novels and social history books and I obviously needed to bone up on my knowledge of the Pankhursts – but I don’t like to spend too much time on research. How long did it take doing all the research on Edwardian times and the Suffragettes and how do you go about your research to make the historical detail accurate of Edwardians and the suffragettes so convincing? Opal Plumstead: schoolgirl, sweet factory worker and Suffragette and star of Jacqueline Wilson’s 100th book! Photograph: Random House
