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Emmeline and Her Daughters (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)

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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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