An insightful volume featuring the memoirs of Emmeline Pankhurst, the founder of the UK suffragette movement.
Offering a fascinating insight into the life and mind of one of the most important people in Britain's history. Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) was an English political activist and the architect of the British suffragette movement. She founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903 and helped women attain the right to vote. In 1914, she collated her memoirs into this volume, detailing her childhood and revolutionary actions.
This volume is divided into three books:
The Making of a Militant
Four Years of Peaceful Militancy
The Women's Revolution
First published in 1914, this new edition of
My Own Story
features an introductory extract from
Women as World Builders
.