Working-class suffragette : the life of Annie Kenney
Talbot, C. M.2018
Book
Annie Kenney, a working-class mill worker, hears Christobel Pankhurst talk about women's right to vote. Annie is inspired and agrees to help in the campaign. The two women interrupt a Liberal Party meeting held in Manchester in 1905. They dare to ask the leaders whether they intend to support women's suffrage. Annie unfurls a banner displaying the words VOTES FOR WOMEN. After the police remove them from the meeting they address a crowd outside the building. Christobel spits at a policemen and they are arrested, charged and fined. They refuse to pay and become the first women to be imprisoned in the fight to gain the vote. This book tells the story of Annie Kenney and her fight for the right to vote.
Main title:
Working-class suffragette : the life of Annie Kenney / C.M. Talbot.
Author:
Talbot, C. M., author
Imprint:
Oldham : OWC Publishing, 2018.
Collation:
152 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780956541024 (pbk)
Dewey class:
324.623092A324.623324.623092KEN(024)324.623324.623092KEN942 OLD
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2830432