New York City's elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolution In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names--Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and …
New York City's elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolution In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names--Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and …
"Together with her mother, Emmeline, Christabel Pankhurst co-led the single-sex Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), founded in 1903 and soon regarded as the most notorious of the groupings campaigning for the parliamentary vote for women. A First Class Honours Graduate in…
Together with her mother, Emmeline, Christabel Pankhurst co-led the single-sex Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), founded in 1903 and soon regarded as the most notorious of the groupings campaigning for the parliamentary vote for women. A First Class Honours Graduate in …
Drawing on recently released or previously neglected archive material, this book is the first dedicated to the stage career of Cicely Hamilton (1872?1952). Best known for her work with the women?s suffrage movement, Hamilton was at the same time deeply committed to the commercia…
This book presents a pioneering survey of the professional career of a woman better known as a campaigner for women's suffrage in the early twentieth century. It uses archive material to construct a chronology of productions in which she was involved either as author or actress …
"With the approach of the one hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, this book offers an important aid to understanding how women won the right to vote and the extensive debt we owe to those who fought for it for seventy years. Written by Carrie Chapman…
"With the approach of the one hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, this book offers an important aid to understanding how women won the right to vote and the extensive debt we owe to those who fought for it for seventy years. Written by Carrie Chapman…
"With the approach of the one hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, this book offers an important aid to understanding how women won the right to vote and the extensive debt we owe to those who fought for it for seventy years. Written by Carrie Chapman…