Mrs Pankhurst's purple feather : fashion, fury and feminism - women's fight for change / Tessa Boase.

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When 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 fig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boase, Tessa (Author)
Language:English
Published: London : Aurum Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Lemon, Margaretta.
Pankhurst, Emmeline, > 1858-1928.
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds > History.
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Feminism > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Millinery > History > 20th century.
Women > Suffrage > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Women > Political activity > Great Britain > History.
Great Britain > History > Edward VII, 1901-1910.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century.
Feminism.
Millinery.
Social conditions.
Women > Political activity.
Women > Suffrage.
Great Britain.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.
NATURE / Animals / Birds.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xvi, 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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