Mrs Pankhurst's purple feather : fashion, fury and feminism - women's fight for change
Boase, Tessa2018
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Click and Collect for Mrs Pankhurst's purple feather : fashion, fury and feminism - women's fight for changeWhen Mrs Pankhurst stormed the House of Commons with her militant suffragettes in 1908, she wore on her hat a voluptuous purple feather. Twelve years earlier, a very different women's campaign captured the public imagination. Its aim was to stamp out the fashion for feathers in hats. Leading the fight was Etta Lemon. She was anti-fashion, anti-feminist -- and anti-suffrage. Britain's biggest conservation charity, the RSPB, was born through the determined efforts of a handful of women led by Mrs Lemon. Boase explores these rival, overlapping campaigns to show a society in transformation. -- adapted from jacket.
London : Aurum Press, 2018.
xvi, 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-309) and index.
Prologue -- Feathers -- Birds -- Hats -- Votes -- Power -- Epilogue.
9781781316542
305.420941322.4
English
Lemon, MargarettaPankhurst, Emmeline, 1858-1928Royal Society for the Protection of Birds -- HistoryFeminism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryMillinery -- History -- 20th centuryWomen -- Suffrage -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryWomen -- Political activity -- Great Britain -- HistoryGreat Britain -- History -- Edward VII, 1901-1910Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 322.4 PAN | In-transit from Beaumaris Library to Brighton Library (Set: 28 Mar 2024) |
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