Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience. ( signed copy )

Pedersen, Susan

ISBN 10: 0300102453 / ISBN 13: 9780300102451

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 2004

About this Item

Dustwrapper, stout 8vo, pp.xvi, 469. Illustrated. Signed by author on front endpaper. A suffragette and feminist, and elected as an MP for Liverpool whose work promoting social reforms for poor women was crucial for the development of womens rights in Edwardian Britain. Slight creasing to dustwrapper edges in places, with a little very slight wear to wrapper edge at head of spine otherwise a clean and crisp copy. Fine in near fine dustwrapper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience. ( signed copy )
• Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300102453
• ISBN 13: 9780300102451
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Weight: 960 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

When British women demanded the vote in the years before the First World War, they promised to use political rights to remake their country and their world. This is the story of Eleanor Rathbone, the woman who best fulfilled that pledge.
Rathbone cut her political teeth in the suffrage movement in Liverpool, spent two decades crafting social reforms for poor women and children, and was for seventeen years their advocate in the House of Commons. She also played a critical role in imperial policymaking and in the opposition to appeasement. In the last decade of her life she sought to rescue Spanish republicans and Jews threatened by Hitler’s rise to power.
In this important book, Susan Pedersen illuminates both the public and private sides of Rathbone’s life while restoring her to her rightful place as the most sophisticated feminist thinker and most effective British woman politician of the first half of the twentieth century.

About the Author

Susan Pedersen is professor of history at Columbia University.