The Resource Mrs Pankhurst's purple feather : fashion, fury and feminism - women's fight for change, Tessa Boase
Mrs Pankhurst's purple feather : fashion, fury and feminism - women's fight for change, Tessa Boase
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- Summary
- In the Museum of London lies a purple feather, once worn by the suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst. The plumed hat was an essential part of her ultra-feminine image. For over half a century, from the High Victorian era to the Jazz Age, it was de rigueur to deck your head with plumage, wings - even entire birds. An insatiable global trade in feathers brought birdlife to the brink of extinction: snowy egrets, crested grebes, jewel-like hummingbirds. At its Edwardian peak, the plumage trade was worth a staggering £2m a year to Britain - £204m in today's money. The struggle to save the birds was a woman's campaign. Its aim was simple: to stamp out the fashion for feathers in hats. Leading the fight was Etta Lemon, and she was known as 'Mother of the Birds'. This book explores two very different heroines: Mrs Pankhurst and Mrs Lemon - one lionised, the other forgotten - and their rival, overlapping campaigns
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvi, 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781781316542
- Label
- Mrs Pankhurst's purple feather : fashion, fury and feminism - women's fight for change
- Title
- Mrs Pankhurst's purple feather
- Title remainder
- fashion, fury and feminism - women's fight for change
- Statement of responsibility
- Tessa Boase
- Subject
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- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- History
- Lemon, Margaretta
- Great Britain -- History -- Edward VII, 1901-1910
- Pankhurst, Emmeline, 1858-1928
- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds -- History
- Women -- Suffrage -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Millinery -- History -- 20th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In the Museum of London lies a purple feather, once worn by the suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst. The plumed hat was an essential part of her ultra-feminine image. For over half a century, from the High Victorian era to the Jazz Age, it was de rigueur to deck your head with plumage, wings - even entire birds. An insatiable global trade in feathers brought birdlife to the brink of extinction: snowy egrets, crested grebes, jewel-like hummingbirds. At its Edwardian peak, the plumage trade was worth a staggering £2m a year to Britain - £204m in today's money. The struggle to save the birds was a woman's campaign. Its aim was simple: to stamp out the fashion for feathers in hats. Leading the fight was Etta Lemon, and she was known as 'Mother of the Birds'. This book explores two very different heroines: Mrs Pankhurst and Mrs Lemon - one lionised, the other forgotten - and their rival, overlapping campaigns
- Cataloging source
- StDuBDS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Boase, Tessa
- Dewey number
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- 941'.0823'09252
- 941.082309252
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Lemon, Margaretta
- Pankhurst, Emmeline
- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
- Millinery
- Women
- Great Britain
- Great Britain
- History
- Label
- Mrs Pankhurst's purple feather : fashion, fury and feminism - women's fight for change, Tessa Boase
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 9781781316542
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781781316542
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations (black and white, and colour)
- Label
- Mrs Pankhurst's purple feather : fashion, fury and feminism - women's fight for change, Tessa Boase
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 9781781316542
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781781316542
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Subject
- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- History
- Lemon, Margaretta
- Great Britain -- History -- Edward VII, 1901-1910
- Pankhurst, Emmeline, 1858-1928
- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds -- History
- Women -- Suffrage -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Millinery -- History -- 20th century
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