Suffragettes
The Fight for Votes for Women
$43.44
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
10 November 2015
Summary
‘Queen Victoria is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad wicked folly of women’s rights, with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor sex is bent’ - 1870
It was a bloody and dangerous war lasting several decades, won finally by sheer will and determination in 1928. Drawing on extracts from diaries, newspapers, letters, journals and books, Joyce Marlow has pieced together this inspiring, poignant and exciting history using the voices o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349007748 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349007748 |
| Author: | Joyce Marlow |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 10 November 2015 |
| Weight: | 247g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 130mm x 21mm |
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A cleverly assembled patchwork of press cuttings, diary entries and journal extracts comes together here to make up a colourful and moving narrative of the women’s suffrage movement
A cleverly assembled patchwork of press cuttings, diary entries and journal extracts comes together here to make up a colourful and moving narrative of the women’s suffrage movement - Scotsman
A] fascinating anthology… what makes it so interesting is not just the coverage of the main events…but the lesser known details. - The TimesAbout The Author
Joyce Marlow
Joyce Marlow was born and bred in Manchester. She started her working life as an actress before turning to full-time writing. She is the author of THE VIRAGO BOOK OF WOMEN AND THE GREAT WAR. Married with two sons she lives in the High Peak district of Derbyshire.
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