Mrs Pankhurst's purple feather : fashion, fury and feminism - women's fight for change

The Resource Mrs Pankhurst's purple feather : fashion, fury and feminism - women's fight for change
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Mrs Pankhurst's purple feather : fashion, fury and feminism - women's fight for change
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fashion, fury and feminism - women's fight for change
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Tessa Boase
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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
Dewey number
  • 941'.0823'09252
  • 941.082309252
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • plates
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography

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