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Book SynopsisDon't miss Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst in the major motion picture Suffragette.
Emmeline Pankhurst grew up all too aware of the prevailing attitude of her day: that men were considered superior to women. When she was just fourteen she attended her first suffrage meeting, and returned home a confirmed suffragist. Throughout the course of her career she endured humiliation, prison, hunger strikes and the repeated frustration of her aims by men in power, but she rose to become a guiding light of the Suffragette movement. This is the story, in Pankhurst’s own words, of her struggle for equality.
Trade ReviewShe shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back * Time *
She put body and soul at the service of liberty, equality and fraternity and secured a triumph for them -- Rebecca West
Emmeline Pankhurst fought for women's suffrage with indomitable courage * Guardian *
The finished product rests somewhere between a gripping novel and a painstaking historical record. No view of the suffragette story is complete without this comprehensive puzzle piece. -- Jacqui Agate * The Independent *
