Rebel Girls
How votes for women changed Edwardian lives
$54.33
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2006
Summary
Rejecting the deadening conventions of their Victorian elders, the rebel girls demanded new freedoms and new rights. They took their suffrage message out to the remotest Yorkshire dales and fishing harbours, to win Edwardian hearts and minds.
Sixteen-year-old Huddersfield weaver Dora Thewlis, on arrest, was catapulted onto the tabloid front-pages as ‘Baby Suffragette’. Her life was transformed. Dancer Lilian Lenton waited till her twenty-first birthday - then determined to burn two bu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844081684 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844081680 |
| Author: | Jill Liddington |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2006 |
| Weight: | 510g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 157mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
“Offers another fascinating angle on the women’s suffrage movement.”
“A brilliant and original contribution to the history of female suffrage.” “The Times “on “One Hand Tied Behind Us””
“Offers another fascinating angle on the women’s suffrage movement.” “The Guardian””
Jill Liddington
Jill Liddington is co-author of One Hand Tied Behind Us (Virago 1978) which quickly became a suffrage classic. She is a Senior Research Fellow at Leeds University.
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