Praise for My Own Story (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)
Rests somewhere between a gripping novel and a painstaking historical record. No view of the suffragette story is complete without this comprehensive puzzle piece
Independent
She 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
Rests somewhere between a gripping novel and a painstaking historical record. No view of the suffragette story is complete without this comprehensive puzzle piece
Independent
She 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
Rests somewhere between a gripping novel and a painstaking historical record. No view of the suffragette story is complete without this comprehensive puzzle piece
Independent
She 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
Emmeline Pankhurst grew up all too aware of the prevailing attitude of her day: that men were considered superior to women. This is an extract from her story, in her own words, of her struggle for equality
