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PublisherBloomsbury Publishing

ISBN-101408844044

ISBN-139781408844045

eBay Product ID (ePID)237455917

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Book TitleRise Up Women! : the Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes

Number of Pages688 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2018

TopicWomen, Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Social History, Women's Studies

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, History

AuthorDiane Atkinson

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height2.5 in

Item Weight43.8 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2018-420202

Reviewsfor Elsie and Mairi "It's a lost, antique, opaque England that Diane Atkinson evokes here-fascinating."- The Washington Post "Fully celebrating the exploits of two intensely linked young women who benefited hundreds of lives."- Publishers Weekly, Atkinson chronicles the deeds and sufferings of more than 100 women in Edwardian Britain who clashed with the authorities in the pursuit of Votes for Women ... The moral courage of these people is humbling, "Patiently, skilfully and empathetically, Diane Atkinson gives us the fullest, most insightful history yet of the suffragette movement and the courageous women who drove it forward to eventual fruition." - David Kynaston for RISE UP WOMEN! "[An] immensely readable suffragette epic, with its full cast of the charismatic stars, character actors and the vast chorus who bravely and ingeniously dedicated--and risked--their lives to achieve the first modern, militant struggle in twentieth-century political theatre..." - Rachel Holmes, author of ELEANOR MARX: A LIFE, for RISE UP WOMEN! "It's a lost, antique, opaque England that Diane Atkinson evokes here--fascinating." - The Washington Post (for ELSIE AND MAIRI) "Fully celebrating the exploits of two intensely linked young women who benefited hundreds of lives." - Publishers Weekly (for ELSIE AND MAIRI) "Well researched...recommended for women's studies scholars, legal scholars and academics." - Library Journal (for THE CRIMINAL CONVERSATION OF MRS. NORTON) "An impressive biography." - Booklist (for THE CRIMINAL CONVERSATION OF MRS. NORTON), In a new biography of the suffragette movement, Diane Atkinson has written not just a useful guide, but a terrific page-turner. It reads at times like a novel, but with characters and events you couldn't make up ... A tour de force

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal324.6230941

SynopsisAlmost one hundred years ago, British women led a hard-fought campaign to gain the right to vote--and this is their story., Marking the centenary of female suffrage, this definitive history charts women's fight for the vote through the lives of those who took part, in a timely celebration of an extraordinary struggle An Observer Pick of 2018 A Telegraph Book of 2018 A New Statesman Book of 2018 Between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War, while the patriarchs of the Liberal and Tory parties vied for supremacy in parliament, the campaign for women's suffrage was fought with great flair and imagination in the public arena. Led by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia, the suffragettes and their actions would come to define protest movements for generations to come. From their marches on Parliament and 10 Downing Street, to the selling of their paper, Votes for Women , through to the more militant activities of the Women's Social and Political Union, whose slogan 'Deeds Not Words!' resided over bombed pillar-boxes, acts of arson and the slashing of great works of art, the women who participated in the movement endured police brutality, assault, imprisonment and force-feeding, all in the relentless pursuit of one goal: the right to vote. A hundred years on, Diane Atkinson celebrates the lives of the women who answered the call to 'Rise Up'; a richly diverse group that spanned the divides of class and country, women of all ages who were determined to fight for what had been so long denied. Actresses to mill-workers, teachers to doctors, seamstresses to scientists, clerks, boot-makers and sweated workers, Irish, Welsh, Scottish and English; a wealth of women's lives are brought together for the first time, in this meticulously researched, vividly rendered and truly defining biography of a movement., Almost one hundred years ago, British women led a hard-fought campaign to gain the right to vote--and this is their story. Britain's women's suffrage campaign began in the nineteenth century, but the twentieth century ushered in a more militant campaign. On June 30, 1908, two schoolteachers broke windows at 10 Downing Street to protest being turned away from Parliament, and when Parliament dissolved without passing the Conciliation Bill, the Women's Social and Political Union (W.S.P.U.) led the Black Friday riot on November 18, 1910. Two years later, Ellen Pitfield set fire to a waste basket at the General Post Office and was sentenced to six months for arson. By 1913, suffragettes were winning public sympathy by citing harrowing stories of imprisoned women on hunger strikes being drugged with bromide and force fed. During the First World War women had done many of the jobs previously done by men, and their vital work was rewarded politically by the Representation of the People Act, giving the vote to all women twenty-one years or older. It was passed in the House of Lords on June 19, 1917, and became law on February 6, 1918. Perhaps the ultimate victory was a law passed on November 21, 1918, that allowed women to stand as Members of Parliament in the next general election.

LC Classification NumberJN979