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Joyce Marlow - The Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women - 9780349007748 - 9780349007748
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The Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women

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Description for The Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women Paperback. * A comprehensive anthology of the long and bloody history of women's struggle to get the vote. Here is the story in the voices of the women themselves. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 254.
Queen Victoria is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad wicked folly of women's rights, with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor sex is bent' - 1870 It was a bloody and dangerous war lasting several decades, won finally by sheer will and determination in 1928. Drawing on extracts from diaries, newspapers, letters, journals and books, Joyce Marlow has pieced together this inspiring, poignant and exciting history using the voices of the women themselves. Some of the people and events are well-known, but Marlow has gone beyond the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Virago
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349007748
SKU
9780349007748
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-6

About Joyce Marlow
Joyce Marlow was born and bred in Manchester. She started her working life as an actress before turning to full-time writing. She is the author of THE VIRAGO BOOK OF WOMEN AND THE GREAT WAR. Married with two sons she lives in the High Peak district of Derbyshire.

Reviews for The Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women
A] fascinating anthology... what makes it so interesting is not just the coverage of the main events...but the lesser known details.
The Times
A cleverly assembled patchwork of press cuttings, diary entries and journal extracts comes together here to make up a colourful and moving narrative of the women's suffrage movement
Scotsman

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