Mrs Pankhurst's purple feather : fashion, fury and feminism - women's fight for change / Tessa Boase.
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TextPublisher: London : Aurum Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: xvi, 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781781316542; 1781316546Subject(s): Lemon, Margaretta | Pankhurst, Emmeline, 1858-1928 | Royal Society for the Protection of Birds -- History | 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 centuryDDC classification: 305.420941 LOC classification: HQ1236.5.G7 | B65 2018Summary: 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 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-309) and index.
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 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.
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