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My Own Story: Inspiration for the major motion picture Suffragette - Softcover

Pankhurst, Emmeline

 
9781784871253: My Own Story: Inspiration for the major motion picture Suffragette
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1784871257 ISBN 13: 9781784871253
Verlag: Vintage Classics, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

The great leader of the women’s suffrage movement tells the story of her struggles in her own words.

Emmeline Pankhurst grew up all too aware of the prevailing attitude of her day: that men were considered superior to women. When she was just fourteen she attended her first suffrage meeting, and returned home a confirmed suffragist. Throughout the course of her career she endured humiliation, prison, hunger strikes and the repeated frustration of her aims by men in power, but she rose to become a guiding light of the Suffragette movement. This is the story, in Pankhurst’s own words, of her struggle for equality.

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Emmeline Pankhurst was born in 1858 in Manchester, into a politically active family. She became interested in politics at a young age and a supporter of women’s suffrage by the age of fourteen. As a teenager she attended school in Paris and on her return to Manchester she met and married Richard Pankhurst, a barrister twenty-four years her senior. Over the next ten years they had five children. Emmeline’s interest in politics and involvement in the suffrage movement continued to develop and she was a member of the Women’s Franchise League and later the Independent Labour Party. In 1903, frustrated by the lack of progress on securing votes for women, Pankhurst and several colleagues founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), a militant organisation devoted to securing votes for women by direct action. For the following twenty years, members of the WSPU, led by Pankhurst, endured prison and hunger strikes in their struggle to win the right to vote. Their activities were called to a halt by the start of the First World War but in 1918, the government gave voting rights to women over thirty. Emmeline died on 14 June 1928, shortly after women were granted equal voting rights with men.

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Verlag
Vintage Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1784871257
ISBN 13 
9781784871253
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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Vintage Classics
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