Emmeline Pankhurst; Copyright; Contents; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Principles before politics; Part I A Political Apprenticeship 1858-1903; 1 Shaping a life 1858-80; 2 The Liberal years 1880-94; 3 The Ilp years 1894-1903; Part Ii The Suffagette Story 1903-14; 4 Suffragette beginnings 1903-07; 5 Deeds and words 1908-09; 6 Deeds not words 1910-12; 7 The height of militancy 1913-14; 8 International fund-raising 1909-13; Part Iii Life After The Vote 1914-28; 9 The First World War 1914-18; 10 Life after the war 1918-28; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary
In this well-structured, fluent and lively account, Paula Bartley uses new archival material to assess whether Pankhurst should be seen as a heroine or a tyrant, a conservative or a progressive. Emmeline Pankhurst was the most prominent campaigner for the women's right to vote and was transformed into a popular heroine of the early twentieth century. Early in life she was attracted to socialism, she grew into an entrenched and militant suffragette and ended up as a Conservative Party candidate. This new biography examines the guiding principles that underpinned all of Emmeline Pankhurst's action.
