Suffragette Pankhurst Emmeline
Suffragette Pankhurst Emmeline "Suffragette" is now on release as a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst. . Introduction contextualizing Mrs Pankhurst and the path to…
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Suffragette Pankhurst Emmeline
"Suffragette" is now on release as a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst. . Introduction contextualizing Mrs Pankhurst and the path to women's suffrage. . Illustrated with sixteen photographs. .
Timeline of events. . Suggestions for further reading. . Annotations: 100 footnotes explaining concepts and characters.
Emmeline Pankhurst was the most well known of the activists striving for the right for women to vote in the early twentieth century. This book is her story. It was first published in 1914 at the start of the First World War and before women received enfranchisement.
In the text Mrs Pankhurst describes her path to radical politics and her life as leader of the suffragette movement. She does not hold back on her descriptions of the violent tactics employed or indeed the savage treatment of the women by the authorities. The accounts of the often