Emmeline Pankhurst

Description:

"Votes for Women! This biography tells the story of Emmeline Pankhurst, from her early campaigns for the rights of women to vote, through the formation of the Women's Social and Political Union, to the triumph following the First World War of the granting of rights for women. Emmeline believed that action was the way to get her cause noticed and to gain support. Through the story of Emmeline Pankhurst's strive for women's suffrage, we learn about the role of women in the society of Victorian Britain and the early 1900s." (publisher).

subjects: Suffragists,  Suffrage,  Juvenile literature,  Biography,  Women,  Pankhurst, emmeline, 1858-1928,  Great britain, biography,  Great britain, juvenile literature

People: Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928)

Places: Great Britain