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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827491003321

Autore

Rosen Andrew

Titolo

Rise up, women! : the militant campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union, 1903-1914 / / Andrew Rosen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-24754-8

0-203-10400-5

1-283-97307-3

1-136-24755-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Women's history ; ; v. 32

Disciplina

324/.3/0941

Soggetti

Women - Suffrage - Great Britain - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published in 1974"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Antecedents; 2 Enter the Pankhursts; 3 The Founding of the WSPU; 4 Militancy Begins; 5 To London; 6 Rapid Growth; 7 The Split; 8 To Hyde Park!; 9 Frustration Mounts; 10 Violence Begins; 11 The Truce; 12 The Truce Renewed; 13 Violence, Flight, and Divided Counsels; 14 The Pethick-Lawrences Depart; 15 Bromley and Bow, and its Aftermath; 16 The Arson Campaign; 17 The Great Scourge; 18 The Arson Campaign, Continued; 19 The End of the Militant Campaign; 20 Epilogue: The Vote, and After; Notes; Selected Bibliography

Index

Sommario/riassunto

The suffragette movement shattered the domestic tranquillity of Edwardian England. This book is an original and searching study of the formidable organization which led this campaign: the Women's Social and Political Union.With the use of previously unpublished correspondence of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, her colleagues and such political leaders as Asquith, Balfour and Lloyd George, the author views the development of ever more extreme and violent forms of militancy not as a series of amusing exploits and incidents but as the carefully calculated political strategy the suffragettes int