Emmeline Pankhurst / Paula Bartley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bartley, Paula.

Series:

Routledge historical biographies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pankhurst, Emmeline, 1858-1928.

Pankhurst, Emmeline.

Suffragists--Great Britain--Biography.

Suffragists.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 284 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Summary:

Emmeline Pankhurst was the most prominent campaigner for women's right to vote and was transformed into a popular heroine of the early twentieth century. Early in life she was attracted to socialism, then she grew into an entrenched and militant suffragette and ended up as a Conservative Party candidate. This new biography examines the guiding principles that underpinned all of Emmeline Pankhurst's actions, and places her achievements within a wider social and political context. In this well-structured, fluent and lively account, Paula Bartley uses new archival material to assess whether Pankhurst should be seen as a heroine or a tyrant, a conservative or a progressive.

Contents:

Introduction: Principles before politics 1

Part I A Political Apprenticeship 1858-1903 13

1 Shaping a life 1858-80 15

2 The Liberal years 1880-94 29

3 The ILP years 1894-1903 44

Part II The Suffragette Story 1903-14 69

4 Suffragette beginnings 1903-07 71

5 Deeds and words 1908-09 96

6 Deeds not words 1910-12 116

7 The height of militancy 1913-14 139

8 International fund-raising 1909-13 160

Part III Life After the Vote 1914-28 181

9 The First World War 1914-18 183

10 Life after the war 1918-28 210.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [242]-275) and index.

ISBN:

0415206502

0415206510

OCLC:

49550838