Pioneering women
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![Front cover of the book The Other Emmeline The Story of Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence]()
This book traces the trajectory of Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence’s life as she navigates the struggle for women’s votes, for peace and for women’s rights in the turbulent years before, during and after the First World War
![Art & Suffrage Book Cover]()
A biographical dictionary of suffrage artists discussing the lives and work of over 100 artists, each of whom made a positive contribution to the women’s suffrage campaign
![Mrs Sherwood Biography Book Cover]()
A biography of the 19th Century children’s writer Mrs M. M. Sherwood (1775–1851) with excerpts from Captain Sherwood’s diaries
![In the Steps of Exceptional Women]()
In the steps of Exceptional Women is the first book to trace the history of the Fawcett Society from its origins in the suffrage movement in 1866 right up to its role as a cutting edge organisation campaigning for equality 150 years later.
![Displaced by War Book Cover]()
During the First World War, June 1915 to December 1919, Gertrude Powicke spent time with the Society of Friends for their relief efforts in France, then Poland, working among the civilian victims of war. She recorded events, people and experiences and her reactions to them, for her family’s benefit, but also as an act of analysis and self-examination.
![Campaigning for the Vote Book Cover]()
Out of stockCampaigning for the Vote tells, in her own words, the efforts of a working suffragist to convert the men and women of England to the cause of women’s suffrage.
![Yes Papa! Mrs Chapone and The Bluestocking Circle]()
With a preface by Dr Elizabeth Eger of King’ College, London.
Barbara Eaton’s fascinating study is the first full length biography to set Chapone among her contemporaries.
![Enterprising Women Book Cover]()
The story of a group of women around the Garrett family, who in the second half of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth changed the position of women in Britain forever.
