Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather
Subtitle: Fashion, fury and Feminism - Women's Fight for Change
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group UK; Aurum Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781781316542
Subjects: Royal society (great britain); Women, suffrage, great britain
Description: When Mrs Pankhurst stormed the House of Commons with her militant suffragettes in 1908, she wore on her hat a voluptuous purple feather. Twelve years earlier, a very different women's campaign captured the public imagination. Its aim was to stamp out the fashion for feathers in hats. Leading the fight was Etta Lemon. She was anti-fashion, anti-feminist&#x2013; and anti-suffrage. Britain&#x2019;s biggest conservation charity, the RSPB, was born through the determined efforts of a handful of women led by Mrs Lemon. Boase explores these rival, overlapping campaigns to show a society in transformation. -- adapted from jacket.