Emmeline Pankhurst: A BiographyEmmeline Pankhurst was perhaps the most influential woman of the twentieth century. Today her name is synonymous with the 'votes for women' campaign and she is remembered as the most brave and inspirational suffrage leader in history. In this absorbing account of her life both before and after the campaign for women's suffrage, June Purvis documents her early political work, her active role within the suffrage movement and her role as a wife and mother within her family. This fascinating full-length biography of Emmeline Pankhurst, the first for nearly seventy years, draws upon new approaches to feminist biography to place her within the context of her family and friends. It is based upon an unrivalled range of primary sources, including personal interviews with her surviving family. |
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CHILDHOOD AND YOUNG WOMANHOOD 18581879 | 9 |
MARRIAGE AND ENTRY INTO POLITICAL LIFE 1880MARCH 1887 | 18 |
POLITICAL HOSTESS JUNE 18871892 | 25 |
SOCIALIST AND PUBLIC REPRESENTATIVE 18931897 | 39 |
WIDOWHOOD AND EMPLOYMENT 1898FEBRUARY 1903 | 51 |
FOUNDATION AND EARLY YEARS OF THE WSPU MARCH 1903JANUARY 1906 | 65 |
TO LONDON FEBRUARY 1906JUNE 1907 | 79 |
HONORARY TREASURER OF THE WSPU AND AGITATOR OCTOBER 1912APRIL 1913 | 200 |
PRISONER OF THE CAT AND MOUSE ACT APRILAUGUST 1913 | 217 |
OUSTING OF SYLVIA AND A FRESH START FOR ADELA AUGUST 1913JANUARY 1914 | 232 |
FUGITIVE JANUARYAUGUST 1914 | 250 |
WAR WORK AND A SECOND FAMILY SEPTEMBER 1914JUNE 1917 | 268 |
WAR EMISSARY TO RUSSIA EMMELINE VERSUS THE BOLSHEVIKS JUNEOCTOBER 1917 | 292 |
LEADER OF THE WOMENS PARTY NOVEMBER 1917JUNE 1919 | 300 |
LECTURER IN NORTH AMERICA AND DEFENDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE SEPTEMBER 1919DECEMBER 1925 | 318 |
AUTOCRAT OF THE WSPU? JULY 1907SEPTEMBER 1908 | 96 |
EMMELINE AND CHRISTABEL OCTOBER 1908JANUARY 1909 | 113 |
A NEW AND MORE HEROIC PLANE JANUARYSEPTEMBER 1909 | 122 |
PERSONAL SORROW AND FORTITUDE SEPTEMBER 1909EARLY JANUARY 1911 | 135 |
THE TRUCE RENEWED JANUARYNOVEMBER 1911 | 155 |
THE WOMENS REVOLUTION NOVEMBER 1911JUNE 1912 | 173 |
BREAK WITH THE PETHICK LAWRENCES JULYOCTOBER 1912 | 190 |
Common terms and phrases
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