Rise Up, Women! - The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes (Broché)

A hundred years on from the first women in Britain being granted the right to vote, Diane Atkinson's defining biography of a movement illuminates and celebrates the lives of the women who fought for half a century with imagination and daring. As Atkinson deftly unravels the story of the campaign, she breathes life into a cast of hundreds of different women — those who led and those who followed, those who marched, those who wrote, those who rioted, those who vandalized, those imprisoned, those escaped, those martyred — from all walks of life, united in their hope, despair, defiance and dedication.