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Significant Sisters Contributors - Caroline Norton . Elizabeth Blackwell . Florence Nightingale . Emily Davies . Josephine Butler Elizabeth Cady Stanton . Margaret Sanger . Emma Goldman Significant Sisters traces the lives of eight women, each of whom pioneered vital changes in the spheres of law, education, the professions, morals or politics: the first woman doctor, the pioneer of birth control, a radical journalist, suffragists. Each forged her own particular brand of feminism, yet all fought bravely to make real, lasting differences to women's lives, and make us redefine our own notions of feminism today. 'A compulsively readable account...Margaret Forster write history with a novelist's eye for details and is interested in the contradictions and conflicts in her heroines' attitudes to their own femininity' A.S.Byatt, The Times 'Humane, humorous and perceptive' Evening Standard 'Inspiring' The Times Literary Supplement 'A serious book but immensely readable because it is so well written' Susan Hill 'Margaret Forster is alive to the debt we owe to such champions, who made our world so much more hospitable to women' Marina Warner, Sunday Times
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