Emmeline Pankhurst / / Paula Bartley

• Autore: Bartley Paula
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 324.6/23/092; 324.623092
• Soggetto topico: Suffragists - Great Britain
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Emmeline Pankhurst
• ISBN: 1-135-12096-X; 0-203-35487-7; 1-283-84248-3; 1-135-12089-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786442503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Historical Biographies