My Own Story: Inspiration for the major motion picture Suffragette by Emmeline P

Description: My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst Dont miss Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst in the major motion picture Suffragette. Emmeline Pankhurst grew up all too aware of the prevailing attitude of her day: that men were considered superior to women. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Dont miss Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst in the major motion picture Suffragette.Emmeline Pankhurst grew up all too aware of the prevailing attitude of her day- that men were considered superior to women. When she was just fourteen she attended her first suffrage meeting, and returned home a confirmed suffragist. Throughout the course of her career she endured humiliation, prison, hunger strikes and the repeated frustration of her aims by men in power, but she rose to become a guiding light of the Suffragette movement. This is the story, in Pankhursts own words, of her struggle for equality. Back Cover She shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back Time Emmeline Pankhurst grew up all too aware of the prevailing attitude of her day: that men were considered superior to women. When she was just fourteen she attended her first suffrage meeting, and returned home a confirmed suffragist. Throughout the course of her career she endured humiliation, prison, hunger strikes and the repeated frustration of her aims by men in power, but she rose to become a guiding light of the Suffragette movement. This is the story, in Pankhursts own words, of her struggle for equality. See also: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Author Biography Emmeline Pankhurst was born in 1858 in Manchester, into a politically active family. She became interested in politics at a young age and a supporter of womens suffrage by the age of fourteen. As a teenager she attended school in Paris and on her return to Manchester she met and married Richard Pankhurst, a barrister twenty-four years her senior. Over the next ten years they had five children. Emmelines interest in politics and involvement in the suffrage movement continued to develop and she was a member of the Womens Franchise League and later the Independent Labour Party. In 1903, frustrated by the lack of progress on securing votes for women, Pankhurst and several colleagues founded the Womens Social and Political Union (WSPU), a militant organisation devoted to securing votes for women by direct action. For the following twenty years, members of the WSPU, led by Pankhurst, endured prison and hunger strikes in their struggle to win the right to vote. Their activities were called to a halt by the start of the First World War but in 1918, the government gave voting rights to women over thirty. Emmeline died on 14 June 1928, shortly after women were granted equal voting rights with men. Review The finished product rests somewhere between a gripping novel and a painstaking historical record. No view of the suffragette story is complete without this comprehensive puzzle piece. -- Jacqui Agate * The Independent * Emmeline Pankhurst fought for womens suffrage with indomitable courage * Guardian * She put body and soul at the service of liberty, equality and fraternity and secured a triumph for them -- Rebecca West She shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back * Time * Review Text She shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back Promotional "Headline" The great leader of the womens suffrage movement tells the story of her struggles in her own words. Details ISBN1784870404 Author Emmeline Pankhurst ISBN-10 1784870404 ISBN-13 9781784870409 Format Paperback Media Book Imprint Vintage Classics Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 324.623092 Year 2014 Publication Date 2014-12-11 Publisher Vintage Publishing Subtitle Inspiration for the major motion picture Suffragette Pages 352 Language English Audience General/Trade UK Release Date 2014-12-11 AU Release Date 2014-12-11 NZ Release Date 2014-12-11 Translator Daniella Gitlin Birth 1938 Affiliation Professor of Psychiatry, University of Geneva Position Illustrator Qualifications PsyD We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:88938613;

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