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Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and the Victorian Feminist Movement : the Biography of an Insurgent Woman.
This book provides the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918) - someone referred to among contemporaries as?the grey matter in the brain? of the late-Victorian women?s movement. A pacifist, humanitarian?free-thinker?, Wolstenholme Elmy was a controversial character an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Gender in history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book provides the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918) - someone referred to among contemporaries as?the grey matter in the brain? of the late-Victorian women?s movement. A pacifist, humanitarian?free-thinker?, Wolstenholme Elmy was a controversial character and the first woman ever to speak from a public platform on the topic of marital rape. Lauded by Emmeline Pankhurst as?first? among the infamous militant suffragettes of the Women?s Social and Political Union, Wolstenholme Elmy was one of Britain?s great feminist pioneers and, in her own words, an. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781847794574 1847794572 9781781700037 1781700036 0719081092 9780719081095 |