Constance Elizabeth Maud was born in 1857, the elder daughter of Rev Henry Landon Maud, MA, rector at All Saints’ Church, Sanderstead, Surrey between 1892–1901.
[1] No Surrender is considered to be an important addition to literature about the campaign for votes for women: "Maud's fast-paced tale of prewar suffrage activism enrich[es] a literary field long impoverished by a lack of pro-suffrage fiction".
[2] The book was used as a tool by suffragettes in championing their cause[3] and has since become an important social document of its time.
Charlotte Despard, the president of the Women's Freedom League and the editor of The Vote called it "The best Suffrage novel I have ever read.
"[5] No Surrender was re-published by Persephone Books in 2011, to mark the 100th anniversary of its original publication.