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Over two evenings in March 1912, more than 250 women old and young, rich and poor, strong and delicate were arrested and charged with using hammers and stones to smash the windows of shops and offices across London.The youngest amongst them was 19-year-old teenager glass-breaker and Kent working maid, Ethel Violet Baldock, whilst the eldest was 79-year-old Mrs Hilda Eliza Brackenbury, owner of suffragette safe house, Mouse Castle, in Campden Hill Square.These two evenings would later become known asthe Women's Social and Political Union's window smashing Great Militant Protest. The protest, driven by WSPU leader Emmeline Pankhurst, was against the government and their refusal to include women in their reform bill, which would give women the right to vote. Secret Missions of the Suffragettesexamines these two evenings in great detail, before going on to explore ''behind the scenes'' of the movement; the safe houses and rest homes used by the history-shaping women involved, together wi

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      Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 1/23/2024
      ISBN13: 9781399013963, 978-1399013963
      ISBN10: 1399013963
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      Gender studies: women and girls

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      Book Synopsis
      Over two evenings in March 1912, more than 250 women old and young, rich and poor, strong and delicate were arrested and charged with using hammers and stones to smash the windows of shops and offices across London.The youngest amongst them was 19-year-old teenager glass-breaker and Kent working maid, Ethel Violet Baldock, whilst the eldest was 79-year-old Mrs Hilda Eliza Brackenbury, owner of suffragette safe house, Mouse Castle, in Campden Hill Square.These two evenings would later become known asthe Women's Social and Political Union's window smashing Great Militant Protest. The protest, driven by WSPU leader Emmeline Pankhurst, was against the government and their refusal to include women in their reform bill, which would give women the right to vote. Secret Missions of the Suffragettesexamines these two evenings in great detail, before going on to explore ''behind the scenes'' of the movement; the safe houses and rest homes used by the history-shaping women involved, together wi

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