Emily Wilding Davison
Subtitle: a suffragette's family album
By: by Maureen Howes
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Stroud
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780752498027
Subjects: Suffragists; History
Description: On the 8th of June 1913, Emily Wilding Davison was struck by the king's horse, Anmer, during the Epsom Derby. Now, at the centenary of Emily's death, her family have come together to share Emily's side of the story for the first time. Drawing on the Davison family archives, this volume explores the true cost of women's suffrage.
Table of contents: title: The suffragette; title: The silence is broken; title: Research begins; title: The early years; title: The Morpeth years; title: New jobs, new houses and the loss of a beloved sister; title: Emily as a child and a young woman; title: First year as a governess; title: The Layland-Barrat years, 1904-1907; title: Militant suffragette, 1906-1913; title: The Epsom story begins; title: Derby day; title: Arresting Mrs Pankhurst; title: After the accident; title: Remembering Emily; title: A suffrage timeline.