[Rarebooks] FS: THE SUFFRAGETTE: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement, 1911, Signed by Sylvia Pankhurst

[Charles Agvent]

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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