Women of the right spirit : paid organisers of the women's social and political union (WSPU) 1904-18 / Krista Cowman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cowman, Krista, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's Social and Political Union (Great Britain).

Suffragists--Great Britain--History.

Suffragists.

Women--Suffrage--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Women.

Women--Suffrage.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xi, 248 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2007.

Summary:

This book is the first investigation on how official organizers built and sustained the national militant campaign of the Women' s Social and Political Union between 1903 and 1918. While the overall policy of the Union was devised by an ever-decreasing circle of women, centered around the mother-daughter team of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, much of its actual activity, including its more extreme militant actions such as arson, was devised and implemented by these organizers who worked in the provinces and in London.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719070020

0719070023

OCLC:

144595617