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UNINA9910822409003321 |
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Autore |
Bartley Paula |
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Titolo |
Emmeline Pankhurst / / Paula Bartley |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-12096-X |
0-203-35487-7 |
1-283-84248-3 |
1-135-12089-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge historical biographies |
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Soggetti |
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Suffragists - Great Britain |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-275) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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