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A Telegraph Book of 2018 An Observer Pick of 2018 A New Statesman Book of 2018 A definitive history and anarchic celebration of the fight for women's right to vote; `A huge achievement' Rachel Cooke Observer `Glorious' Sunday Times `A definitive history of the suffragettes' The Times `Magisterial' Telegraph Between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War while the patriarchs of the Liberal and Tory parties vied for supremacy in parliament the campaign for women's suffrage was fought with flair and imagination in the public arena. From their marches on Parliament and 10 Downing Street to the selling of their paper Votes for Women through to the more militant activities of the Women's Social and Political Union whose slogan 'Deeds Not Words!' resided over bombed pillar-boxes acts of arson and the slashing of great works of art the women who participated in the movement endured police brutality assault imprisonment and force-feeding all in the relentless pursuit of one goal: the right to vote. A hundred years on Diane Atkinson celebrates the lives of the women who answered the call to 'Rise Up'; a richly diverse group of actresses and mill-workers teachers and doctors bootmakers and sweated workers. Meticulously researched vividly rendered and definitive Rise Up Women! brings these women to life in a stirring celebration of their grace resilience and determination that changed the world forever.
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ISBN:
9781408844052
Author:
Diane Atkinson
Publisher:
STASSEN BOEKWINKELS