Suffragettes, Suffragists & Antis
The story of the fight for the vote in the Surrey Hills from 1866 to 1928 and beyond, featuring the militant ‘suffragette’ campaign, the ‘constitutional’ campaigners and those who fought against the vote for women. The book features the suffragette leaders Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence and the 1912 Dorking and Holmwood campaign that saw the town and villages come to national attention, and a host of local campaigners, from early campaigners for women’s emancipation and education such as Harriet Grote ot Shere to the Brackenbury sisters of Peaslake - prominent stone throwers who were close to Mrs Pankhurst. Many prominent campaigners later joined the Pethick-Lawrences when they moved to Peaslake to form a coterie of artists, progressive campaigners and activists including Mary Neal, Dorothy Buxton, Christabel Pankhurst, Baronness Rhondda and Theodora Bosanquet.
by Kathy Atherton
216 pages fully illustrated
By Kathy Atherton
The story of the fight for the vote in the Surrey Hills from 1866 to 1928 and beyond, featuring the militant ‘suffragette’ campaign, the ‘constitutional’ campaigners and those who fought against the vote for women. The book features the suffragette leaders Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence and the 1912 Dorking and Holmwood campaign that saw the town and villages come to national attention, and a host of local campaigners, from early campaigners for women’s emancipation and education such as Harriet Grote ot Shere to the Brackenbury sisters of Peaslake - prominent stone throwers who were close to Mrs Pankhurst. Many prominent campaigners later joined the Pethick-Lawrences when they moved to Peaslake to form a coterie of artists, progressive campaigners and activists including Mary Neal, Dorothy Buxton, Christabel Pankhurst, Baronness Rhondda and Theodora Bosanquet.
by Kathy Atherton
216 pages fully illustrated
By Kathy Atherton
The story of the fight for the vote in the Surrey Hills from 1866 to 1928 and beyond, featuring the militant ‘suffragette’ campaign, the ‘constitutional’ campaigners and those who fought against the vote for women. The book features the suffragette leaders Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence and the 1912 Dorking and Holmwood campaign that saw the town and villages come to national attention, and a host of local campaigners, from early campaigners for women’s emancipation and education such as Harriet Grote ot Shere to the Brackenbury sisters of Peaslake - prominent stone throwers who were close to Mrs Pankhurst. Many prominent campaigners later joined the Pethick-Lawrences when they moved to Peaslake to form a coterie of artists, progressive campaigners and activists including Mary Neal, Dorothy Buxton, Christabel Pankhurst, Baronness Rhondda and Theodora Bosanquet.
by Kathy Atherton
216 pages fully illustrated
By Kathy Atherton