Rise up, women! : the remarkable lives of the Suffragettes

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Rise up, women! : the remarkable lives of the Suffragettes

Title remainder

the remarkable lives of the Suffragettes

Statement of responsibility

Diane Atkinson

Creator

• Atkinson, Diane

Subject

• Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1901-1936
• Politics and Government
• Suffragists -- Great Britain -- History
• Women -- Suffrage -- Great Britain -- History

Language

eng

Summary

On February 6th 1918, after campaigning for over 50 years, British women were finally granted the vote. In November 1919, the first woman MP, Lady Nancy Astor, was elected to the House of Commons. History was made. 100 years on, it is time to reflect on the daring and painful struggle women undertook to break into a political system that excluded them. In the voices of key suffragettes, 'Rise Up Women!' chronicles the founding of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in the 1860s, led by Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and the formation of the more militant Women's Social and Political Union in 1903. 'Deeds not words!' was their slogan - and they took increasingly violent action, enduring police brutality, imprisonment and force-feeding. Diane Atkinson depicts a truly national and international struggle

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 324.6'23'0941
• 324.6'23'0941
• 324.6230941

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography