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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462777903321

Autore

Bartley Paula

Titolo

Emmeline Pankhurst / / Paula Bartley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

0-203-35487-7

1-283-84248-3

1-135-12089-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Routledge historical biographies

Disciplina

324.6/23/092

324.623092

Soggetti

Suffragists - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-275) and index.

Nota di contenuto

EMMELINE PANKHURST; Copyright; Contents; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Principles before politics; Part I A Political Apprenticeship 1858-1903; 1 Shaping a life 1858-80; 2 The Liberal years 1880-94; 3 The ILP years 1894-1903; Part II The Suffagette Story 1903-14; 4 Suffragette beginnings 1903-07; 5 Deeds and words 1908-09; 6 Deeds not words 1910-12; 7 The height of militancy 1913-14; 8 International fund-raising 1909-13; Part III Life After The Vote 1914-28; 9 The First World War 1914-18; 10 Life after the war 1918-28; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this well-structured, fluent and lively account, Paula Bartley uses new archival material to assess whether Pankhurst should be seen as a heroine or a tyrant, a conservative or a progressive.Emmeline Pankhurst was the most prominent campaigner for the women's right to vote and was transformed into a popular heroine of the early twentieth century. Early in life she was attracted to socialism, she grew into an entrenched and militant suffragette and ended up as a Conservative Party candidate.This new biography examines the guiding principles that underpinned all of Emmeline P