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About this book
Emily Wilding Davison was the most famous suffragette to die in the battle for women's rights, after colliding with the King's horse at the Epsom Derby in 1913, but who was she, and how did she end up dying for her cause?Her notorious final act of protest has for decades obscured her extraordinary life. Now, one hundred years on from the first British women winning the vote, this new biography reveals the story of the respectable governess who pivoted towards vandalism and violence in pursuit of female enfranchisement.Times journalist Lucy Fisher draws on the suffragette's own words, contemporary press reports and academic scholarship to paint a vivid picture of Davison's unusual tale and tragic finale.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise
- Title Page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Child of a Most Unusual Union, 1872–1891
- Chapter 2: A Formative Tragedy, 1891–1906
- Chapter 3: The Awakening of a Suffragette, 1906–1909
- Chapter 4: The Beginnings of Militancy, March–October 1909
- Chapter 5: An Incident in Prison, October 1909–1910
- Chapter 6: The Woman in Parliament, 1910–1911
- Chapter 7: The Torture of Force-Feeding, 1911–1912
- Chapter 8: A Near Brush with Death in Prison, June 1912
- Chapter 9: ‘To Lay Down Life For Friends … That Is Glorious’, June 1912–June 1913
- Chapter 10: An Intruder at the Derby, 4–8 June 1913
- Chapter 11: Suicide, Misadventure or Martyrdom? 10–13 June 1913
- Chapter 12: A Heroine in Death, a Martyr Thereafter
- Appendix 1: ‘The Price of Liberty’
- Appendix 2: Her Only Extant Speech
- Appendix 3: ‘Incendiarism’, 1911
- Notes
- Sources and Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
- About the Author
- Copyright