June Purvis

Christabel Pankhurst (eBook, ePUB)

A Biography

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This full-length biography, the first for forty years, draws upon feminist approaches to biography writing to place Christabel Pankhurst within a network of supportive female friendships. It is based upon an unrivalled range of previously untapped primary sources.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 604
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351246644
• Artikelnr.: 50528330

Autorenporträt

June Purvis is Emeritus Professor of Women's and Gender History, University of Portsmouth, UK. She has published extensively on the suffragette movement in Edwardian Britain, her Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography (Routledge, 2002) receiving critical acclaim. She is the Founding and Managing Editor of Women's History Review, the Editor for a Women's and Gender Book Series with Routledge, the Chair of Women's History Network and the Secretary and Treasurer of the International Federation for Research in Women's History.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 'Every struggling cause shall be ours ...': 1880
8 2 Growing up in an atmosphere of politics: 1889
91 3 Sisterly rivalry: 1892
6 4 Young womanhood: 1897
1902 5 Foundation and early years of the WSPU: 1903
4 6 Christabel and Annie go to prison: 1905 7 To London as strategist of the WSPU: 1906 8 Rapid growth of WSPU and splits: 1907 9 Greatest living speaker of her day: 1908 10 'Remember the dignity of your womanhood': 1909 11 Personal sorrow and a truce: 1910 12 'Rise up women!': 1911 13 Escape to France: January 1912
end of June 1912 14 Break with the Lawrences: July 1912
end of December 1912 15 The arson campaign and moral crusade: January 1913
end of September 1913 16 Troublesome sisters: ousting of Sylvia and a fresh start for Adela: October 1913
end of August 1914 17 War years abroad: October 1914
end of April 1917 18 Co
leader of the Women's Party: May 1917
end of October 1918 19 Parliamentary candidate and single parent: November 1918
end of July 1921 20 Second Adventist ministry: August 1921
end of June 1928 21 Elizabeth/Betty/Aurea: July 1928
end of June 1940 22 Living in the United States: July 1940
December 1956 23 Final years: 1957
8 24 Legacy