Dr Diane Atkinson

Broschiertes Buch

Elsie and Mairi Go to War

Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front

Beschreibung

When they met at a motorcycle club in 1912, Elsie Knocker was a thirty year-old motorcycling divorcee dressed in bottle-green Dunhill leathers, and Mairi Chisholm was a brilliant eighteen-year old mechanic, living at home and borrowing tools from her brother.

Autor

Diane Atkinson was born in the North-East and educated in Cornwall and London, where she completed a PhD on the politics of women's sweated labour. At the Museum of London she worked as a lecturer and curator specializing in women's history. She has an MA from the University of East Anglia in Life-writing. She is the author of Suffragettes in Pictures, Funny Girls: Cartooning for Equality and Love and Dirt: The Marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick, which was published in 2003.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornerstone
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 129mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 234g
• ISBN-13: 9781848091351
• ISBN-10: 1848091354
• Artikelnr.: 27376717