My Part in a Changing World.

PETHICK-LAWRENCE, Emmeline.

Edité par London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1938

First edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "Katherine Price Hughes, my beloved 'leader' & friend!" Hughes was the co-founder and leader of the Sisters of the People, a section of the West London Methodist Mission that aimed to help the disadvantaged. Pethick-Lawrence became friends with Hughes during her work with the Sisters from 1890 to 1895. Pethick-Lawrence's inscription continues, "You opened to me to the love of public service. I give you in return my homage, my deep gratitude & love. Let me use once again the old signature, Sister Emmeline, March 1938". In her autobiography, Pethick-Lawrence further comments that Hughes gave her the "first experience of that emancipation of mental and practical powers which is to be found by working as a free person in a community of equals" (pp. 72-73). My Part in a Changing World documents the early influences that moulded Pethick-Lawrence's beliefs and her work for the suffrage movement. Although reticent about her married life in the work, Pethick-Lawrence dedicated her autobiography to her husband and co-editor of Votes for Women, calling him her "unchanging comrade and. best friend". Octavo. Photographic portrait frontispiece. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With supplied dust jacket. Spine ends and corners a little bumped and rubbed, top slightly dust-soiled; jacket unclipped, "file copy" stamp to front panel, foxed, loss to head of spine and at bottom rear panel fold, edges creased with scattered short closed tears and chips: a near-fine copy, rare in the jacket. N° de réf. du vendeur 186877

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : My Part in a Changing World.
Éditeur : London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1938
Signé : Signé par l'auteur
Edition : Edition originale