Suffragette: My Own Story - Couverture souple

Pankhurst, Emmeline

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1910146145 ISBN 13 : 9781910146149

Editeur : Solis Press, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Suffragette is now on release as a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst.

• Illustrated with nineteen photographs
• Introduction contextualizing Mrs Pankhurst and the path to women's suffrage
• Suggestions for further reading
• Timeline of events
• Annotations: 100 footnotes explaining concepts and characters

Emmeline Pankhurst was the most well known of the activists striving for the right for women to vote in the early twentieth century. This book is her story. It was first published in 1914 at the start of the First World War and before women received enfranchisement. In the text Mrs Pankhurst describes her path to radical politics and her life as leader of the suffragette movement. She does not hold back on her descriptions of the violent tactics employed or indeed the savage treatment of the women by the authorities. The accounts of the often sadistic cruelty of the British Establishment towards these women are not easy to forget. The book contains the sixteen photographs from the original 1914 publication with three additional images from Mrs Pankhurst’s visit to the USA. The text has been annotated by the publisher with short footnotes giving explanations of terms and descriptions of the people mentioned. The publisher is pleased to be able to include an introduction and a timeline written by Lesley Gray that provide an overview of the struggle for women to obtain the vote and of Mrs Pankhurst’s role in the suffragette movement.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Emmeline Pankhurst was born in 1858 in Manchester, into a politically active family. She became interested in politics at a young age and a supporter of women's suffrage by the age of fourteen. As a teenager she attended school in Paris and on her return to Manchester she met and married Richard Pankhurst, a barrister twenty-four years her senior. Over the next ten years they had five children. Emmeline's interest in politics and involvement in the suffrage movement continued to develop and she was a member of the Women's Franchise League and later the Independent Labour Party. In 1903, frustrated by the lack of progress on securing votes for women, Pankhurst and several colleagues founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), a militant organisation devoted to securing votes for women by direct action. For the following twenty years, members of the WSPU, led by Pankhurst, endured prison and hunger strikes in their struggle to win the right to vote. Their activities were called to a halt by the start of the First World War but in 1918, the government gave voting rights to women over thirty. Emmeline died on 14 June 1928, shortly after women were granted equal voting rights with men.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Solis Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1910146145
• ISBN 13: 9781910146149
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 246