Mrs Pankhurst's purple feather : fashion, fury and feminism - women's fight for change / Tessa Boase.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boase, Tessa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lemon, Margaretta, 1860-1953.

Lemon, Margaretta.

Pankhurst, Emmeline, 1858-1928.

Pankhurst, Emmeline.

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds--History.

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

Feminism--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Feminism.

Women--Political activity.

History.

Women--Suffrage.

Millinery.

Great Britain.

Millinery--History--20th century.

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

Women.

Women--Political activity--Great Britain--History.

Great Britain--History--Edward VII, 1901-1910.

Great Britain--Social conditions--20th century.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xvi, 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Aurum Press, 2018.

Summary:

When Mrs Pankhurst stormed the House of Commons with her militant suffragettes in 1908, she wore on her hat a voluptuous purple feather. Twelve years earlier, a very different women's campaign captured the public imagination. Its aim was to stamp out the fashion for feathers in hats. Leading the fight was Etta Lemon. She was anti-fashion, anti-feminist- and anti-suffrage. Britain's biggest conservation charity, the RSPB, was born through the determined efforts of a handful of women led by Mrs Lemon. Boase explores these rival, overlapping campaigns to show a society in transformation. -- adapted from jacket.

Contents:

Prologue

Feathers

Birds

Hats

Votes

Power

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-309) and index.

ISBN:

1781316546

9781781316542

OCLC:

1004759262