Emmeline and Her Daughters (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Iris Noble
- First Published: 1971
- Time of Work: 1892–1960
- Setting: Manchester and London, England
- Principal Characters: Emmeline Pankhurst, Christabel Pankhurst, Sylvia Pankhurst, Flora Drummond, Annie Kenney, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Keir Hardie, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, Herbert A. Asquith
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Social action, Social reform, Politics, Women, Suffrage or voting rights, Women’s movement, Women’s rights, Biography, Great Britain
- Locales: London, England, Manchester, England
Form and Content
In Emmeline and Her Daughters: The Pankhurst Suffragettes, Iris Noble uses the Pankhurst family to trace the struggle for women’s suffrage in Great Britain. The book is thus both a collective biography of the Pankhurst family and a history of the role of the Women’s Social and Political Union in obtaining the franchise for British women. The book begins with a suffrage gathering in the Pankhurst home in 1892 and, in ten chapters, traces the contribution of each family member to that reform movement. The final chapter concludes by briefly summarizing...
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