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The Pankhursts - Martin Pugh

 
Description: ISBN 0140290389 / Author: Pugh / Genre: Biography / Emmeline Pankhurst, together with her three daughters--the charming but fickle ... more
The Pankhursts - Martin Pugh ... Christabel, the serious socialist Sylvia, and the lesser-known militant Adela, personified the suffragette ...

Newest Review: ... In later years, Emmeline and Adela fell out and Emmeline, embarrassed by Adela?s left wing politics, banished her daughter ... more

 ... to Australia and the two never spoke again. Emmeline undoubtedly worked hard for the suffragette movement, albeit at the expense of family relations. She participated in the widespread technique of hunger strikes and her health suffered severely as a result. In her latter years she retired to Canada, where she embarked upon courses of morality lectures. She was obviously a woman who liked to have ?a cause?.
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Premium Review The Pankhursts - Martin Pugh: Suffering for Suffrage (957 words)
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The book begins with a Pankhurst family tree, which is useful to refer to in the early stages of the book while the characters are less familiar. Emmeline (nee Goulden) married Richard Pankhurst and they had five children: Christabel, Sylvia (whose first name was actually Estelle), Frank, Adela and Harry. The book chronicles not only the Pankhursts involvement in the suffragette movement but the personal lives of the family. Emmeline was without doubt a very strong lady. She fell in love with Richard as she admired his principles, his politics and his oration skills. He worked with her in the initial stages of fighting for women?s suffrage but died ...  Read the complete review

 

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