[Rarebooks] FS: Pankhurst: THE SUFFRAGETTE. THE HISTORY OF THE WOMEN'S MILITANT SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT, Signed
Charles Agvent
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Thu Feb 9 08:47:56 EST 2006
PANKHURST, E. Sylvia. THE SUFFRAGETTE. THE HISTORY OF THE WOMEN'S
MILITANT SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT 1905--1910. London: Gay & Hancock Limited
(1911). First Edition. Decorated purple cloth; xii, 517 pages. SIGNED
by the author on the front endpaper and dated 19 June 1911.
Illustrated with photographs. Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960)
was the youngest daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, who with her
daughters Estelle and Christabel surged the British suffrage movement
forward from the shadows with a more militant response to the
indignities foisted upon women in England. This book, published in
America later the same year, sparked a more militant approach there
as well. The author was imprisoned repeatedly along with her mother
for her efforts during and after World War I. After helping women
gain the right to vote, this ardent feminist, who believed unmarried
women were entitled to enjoy motherhood, shocked society when as a
spinster of 45 she announced the birth of a son in 1927. An important
book in the history of women's rights, quite scarce in the true first
edition and virtually unheard of when signed as well. Newspaper
obituary of Pankhurst pasted to the verso of the rear free endpaper.
Mild sunning to the spine. Near Fine and scarce. $1500.00
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