Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather: Fashion, Fury and Feminism - ... by Boase, Tessa

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ISBN
1781316546
EAN
9781781316542
Date of Publication
2018-05-03
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Type
Hardback
Release Title
Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather: A scandalous history of birds,...
Artist
Tessa Boase
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Book Title
Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather : Fashion, Fury and Feminism-Women's Fight for Change
Publisher
Quarto Publishing Group UK
Item Length
9.5 in
Publication Year
2018
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.5 in
Author
Tessa Boase
Genre
Social Science, Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Topic
Women, Women's Studies, History, Historical
Item Weight
23.4 Oz
Item Width
6.5 in
Number of Pages
336 Pages
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Quarto Publishing Group UK
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1781316546
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9781781316542
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Book Title
Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather : Fashion, Fury and Feminism-Women's Fight for Change
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, Women's Studies, History, Historical
Publication Year
2018
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Tessa Boase
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
23.4 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
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Brilliantly conceived. For although neither of Boase's convention-shucking heroines had a jot of sympathy with the other's cause, the consequences of their campaigns for progress dovetailed in a dazzling arc., This was a fascinating and fast-moving read. I enjoyed it very much and learned a lot... I recommend highly as a challenging read., 'The story of the RSPB is just one of many layers in Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather... Boase skilfully interweaves the fate of the South American macaw, the huia bird of the New Zealand, the African marabou stork, the snowy egret and the Indian green parrot with the story of women's suffrage ... The relationship between the two groups is profoundly interesting - their similarities, their differences and the public reception of their spirited attempts to bring change.', 'Riveting, dextrously told, vividly imagined in places, shrewdly analysed. Tessa Boase has worked a little bit of magic here.', A vividly written, deeply researched, surprising book... Fascinating untold stories - a feather in the cap of this journalist author., Riveting, dextrously told, vividly imagined, shrewdly analysed. Tessa Boase has worked a little bit of magic here in bringing these [women] to life, and championing the cause of the unsung, Enthralling. In the centenary year of the Representation of People Act, this book reminds us that women fought other campaigns too., 'A resolutely feminist work of scholarship, recovering numerous women often overlooked by more conventional suffrage narratives.'
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This hardback edition is now out of print and a new paperback edition with a new title ETTA LEMON: The Woman who Saved the Birds is being published on 1 June 2021. 'Shocking and entertaining. The surprising story of the campaigning women who changed Britain.' Virginia Nicholson 'Full of fascinating historical detail and colourful characters... A great story, beautifully told.' Kate Humble When Mrs Pankhurst stormed the House of Commons with her crack squad of militant suffragettes in 1908, she wore on her hat a voluptuous purple feather. This is the intriguing story behind that feather. Twelve years before the suffragette movement began dominating headlines, a very different women's campaign captured the public imagination. Its aim was radical: to stamp out the fashion for feathers in hats. Leading the fight was a character just as heroic as Emmeline Pankhurst, but with opposite beliefs. Her name was Etta Lemon, and she was anti-fashion, anti-feminist - and anti-suffrage. Mrs Lemon has been forgotten by history, but her mighty society lives on. Few, today, are aware that Britain's biggest conservation charity, the RSPB, was born through the determined efforts of a handful of women, led by the indomitable Mrs Lemon. While the suffragettes were slashing paintings and smashing shop windows, Etta Lemon and her local secretaries were challenging 'murderous millinery' all the way up to Parliament. This gripping narrative explores two singular heroines - one lionised, the other forgotten - and their rival, overlapping campaigns. Moving from the feather workers' slums to the highest courtly circles, from the first female political rally to the first forcible feeding, Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather is a unique journey through a society in transformation. This is a highly original story of women stepping into the public sphere, agitating for change - and finally finding a voice., 'Shocking and entertaining. The surprising story of the campaigning women who changed Britain.' Virginia Nicholson 'Full of fascinating historical detail and colourful characters... A great story, beautifully told.' Kate Humble When Mrs Pankhurst stormed the House of Commons with her crack squad of militant suffragettes in 1908, she wore on her hat a voluptuous purple feather. This is the intriguing story behind that feather. Twelve years before the suffragette movement began dominating headlines, a very different women's campaign captured the public imagination. Its aim was radical: to stamp out the fashion for feathers in hats. Leading the fight was a character just as heroic as Emmeline Pankhurst, but with opposite beliefs. Her name was Etta Lemon, and she was anti-fashion, anti-feminist - and anti-suffrage. Mrs Lemon has been forgotten by history, but her mighty society lives on. Few, today, are aware that Britain's biggest conservation charity, the RSPB, was born through the determined efforts of a handful of women, led by the indomitable Mrs Lemon. While the suffragettes were slashing paintings and smashing shop windows, Etta Lemon and her local secretaries were challenging 'murderous millinery' all the way up to Parliament. This gripping narrative explores two singular heroines - one lionised, the other forgotten - and their rival, overlapping campaigns. Moving from the feather workers' slums to the highest courtly circles, from the first female political rally to the first forcible feeding, Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather is a unique journey through a society in transformation. This is a highly original story of women stepping into the public sphere, agitating for change - and finally finding a voice., The untold story of two women who fought for change in a male-dominated Victorian society deeply resistant to change. In the Museum of London lies a purple feather, once worn by the suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst. The plumed hat was an essential part of her ultra-feminine image - and she was not alone. For over half a century, from the High Victorian era to the Jazz Age, whatever your class, it was de rigueur to deck your head with plumage, wings - even entire birds. An insatiable global trade in feathers brought bird life to the brink of extinction: snowy egrets, crested grebes, jewel-like hummingbirds. Not even the garden robin was safe. At its Edwardian peak, the plumage trade was worth a staggering 2 million pounds a year to Britain - 204 mil pounds in today's money. The struggle to save the birds was a woman's campaign. It captured the public's imagination a decade before Mrs Pankhurst began making headlines, and its aim was simple: to stamp out the fashion for feathers in hats. Leading the fight was a woman just as heroic as Emmeline Pankhurst, but of a very different mettle. Her name was Etta Lemon, and she was known as 'Mother of the Birds'. Today, everyone has heard of the RSPB - but few are aware that Britain's biggest conservation charity was born through the determined efforts of a handful of women in 1891, led for half a century by the indomitable Mrs Lemon. While the suffragettes were slashing paintings and smashing shop windows, Etta Lemon and her local secretaries were challenging 'murderous millinery' in the female sphere of the department store, in the sacred space of church and, ultimately, in the male preserve of Parliament. This book explores two very different heroines: Mrs Pankhurst and Mrs Lemon - one lionised, the other forgotten - and their rival, overlapping campaigns. Moving from Manchester to London; from the feather workers' slums to the highest courtly circles; from the first female political march to the first forcible feeding, Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather takes the reader on a novel journey through Victorian and Edwardian Britain to the First World War and beyond. This is a highly original story of women stepping into the public sphere, agitating for change, fighting amongst themselves - and finally finding a voice.
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  • by pank_746
    Sep 18, 2024

    Clever concept.

    It is a great concept linking two women who were on the opposite sides of the suffrage movement and yet they had so much in common and borrowed from the other tactics and practices that made them both successful in their respective endeavors. Being a Pankhurst myself just makes it even more interesting.

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