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The Pankhursts: The History of One Radical Family

by Martin Pugh - £12.99  Vintage (2008)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780099520436 | ISBN 10: 0099520435

The suffragettes outraged Victorian society but their personal lives were just as dramatic as their public actions. In this gripping and incisive account of the Pankhursts, Martin Pugh reveals the full story behind this unique family: Emmeline, the domineering mother; Christabel, the favourite daughter, who became an Adventist and admirer of Mussolini; Sylvia, the 'scarlet woman'; and Adela, banished to Australia after a bitter rift.
 
The result is a narrative that reads like a novel, and a brilliant insight into the history of a family that changed the face of British society for ever.

"A marvellously gripping narrative with twists and turns of shock and poignancy that are worthy of a three-decker Victorian novel...exposes the full extent of the dysfunctional family that lay just beneath the surface of the Pankhursts' public image."
(Independent on Sunday)

(Price & availability last checked: August 2018)

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In booklists: The Suffragette Movement and the Fight for the Vote,
In categories: Feminism & Women, History & Biography, Changing the World,

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