Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience

by Susan Pedersen

Book Overview

When British women demanded the vote in the years before the First World War, they promised to use political rights to remake their country and their world. This is the story of Eleanor Rathbone, the woman who best fulfilled that pledge.
Rathbone cut her political teeth in the suffrage movement in Liverpool, spent two decades crafting social reforms for poor women and children, and was for seventeen years their advocate in the House of Commons...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300212208
• ISBN13: 9780300212204
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"