Suffragettes of Kent

preview-18
  • Suffragettes of Kent Book Detail

  • Author : Jennifer Godfrey
  • Release Date : 2019-12-19
  • Publisher : Pen and Sword
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 328
  • ISBN 13 : 1526723522
  • File Size : 74,74 MB

Suffragettes of Kent by Jennifer Godfrey PDF Summary

Book Description: A thought-provoking insight into the stories of hope, determination, courage and sacrifice of those involved in the women’s suffrage movement in Kent. Discover an untold story of a young working-class Kent maid involved in the suffrage movement. See photographs of Ethel and learn of her arrest and imprisonment in March 1912 for participating in the window-smashing militant action. The 1908 Women’s Freedom League and the 1913 Women’s Social and Political Union tours of Kent are retraced, their messages and the Kent inhabitants’ reactions explored. Details are included of Kent’s involvement in the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies’ mass pilgrimage from all parts of the country to London in 1913. Revealing the part Maidstone Gaol played in forcible feeding of suffragette prisoners the book includes an account written by the gaol’s lead medical man. The many links between national suffrage movement leaders and pioneers and Kent are included in accounts of the visits, speeches and actions of Charlotte Despard, Emmeline Pankhurst, Annie Kenney, Emily Wilding Davison and Millicent Fawcett. Discover who was imprisoned in Maidstone Gaol, which pioneer was stoned by a Kent audience during her speech, who interrupted a Kent Liberal meeting in Tunbridge Wells, which woman challenged their Kent audience to do more for the cause and who was much celebrated on her visit to a Kent seaside town. “Vivid accounts of the abuse of and hardships experienced by the suffragette movement in the county of Kent. One of the most moving histories of the movement in Pen and Sword’s brilliant series.” —Books Monthly

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Suffragettes of Kent books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Suffragettes of Kent

Suffragettes of Kent

File Size : 47,47 MB
Total View : 5316 Views
DOWNLOAD

A thought-provoking insight into the stories of hope, determination, courage and sacrifice of those involved in the women’s suffrage movement in Kent. Discove

Rise Up Women!

Rise Up Women!

File Size : 36,36 MB
Total View : 9324 Views
DOWNLOAD

Marking the centenary of female suffrage, this definitive history charts women's fight for the vote through the lives of those who took part, in a timely celebr

The Suffragette Bombers

The Suffragette Bombers

File Size : 30,30 MB
Total View : 3862 Views
DOWNLOAD

In the years leading up to the First World War, the United Kingdom was subjected to a ferocious campaign of bombing and arson. Those conducting this terrorist o

March of the Suffragettes

March of the Suffragettes

File Size : 67,67 MB
Total View : 3761 Views
DOWNLOAD

March of the Suffragettes tells the forgotten, real-life story of "General" Rosalie Gardiner Jones, who in the waning days of 1912 mustered and marched an all-w