The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement 1905-1910

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First edition, green ribbed cloth, titles pressed in white, (16) 517, frontispiece plus numerous full page duotone photos. Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (1882 - 1960) was an English feminist and socialist activist and writer. Her mother, Emmeline Pankhurst (1858 -1928) was a key figure of the British suffragette movement and helped women to win in 1918 the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland. In 1914, when Sylvia refused to enter into a wartime political truce with the government, she broke away from the suffragette leadership of her mother and sister, Christabel. Tipped into the ffe is a British postcard photograph of Mrs Pankhurst in front of an open-air ransport vehicle, printed by W. Dennis Moss, Cirencester. Laid-in is a one page printed flyer "Call for the Annual Convention of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association" to be held in Bridgeport, Connecticut on October 27 and 28, 1911. The featured speaker at the convention was Pankhurst (the elder): "In the evening a mass meeting will be addressed by Mrs. Emeline Pankhurst, leader of the English suffragettes." (Note the use of suffragettes not suffragists.) Listed as president of the association was Katherine H. Hepburn, mother of actress Katherine Hepburn. Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn (1878 - 1951) was an American feminist social reformer and a leader of the suffrage movement in the United States. Hepburn served as president of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association before joining the National Woman's Party.] In 1923 Mrs. Hepburn formed the Connecticut Branch of the American Birth Control League with two of her friends, Mrs. George Day and Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett. Also laid-in is the ballot for officers of the Connecticut Association, with Hepburn not running for re-election, though her friend, Mrs Toscan Bennett is listed as the candidate for chairman (not chairwoman) of Hartford County. Lacking dustjacket, still highly presentable. N° de ref. del artículo 013512

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