Significant Sisters
The Grassroots of Active Feminism, 1839-1939
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:7th Oct '04
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
'A compulsively readable account' A. S. Byatt, The Times
Traces the lives of eight women - Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Blackwell, Florence Nightingale, Emily Davies, Josephine Butler, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, Emma Goldman - each of whom pioneered vital changes in the spheres of law, education, the professions, morals or politics. All fought to make lasting difference to women's lives.
Eight women who changed the world
Caroline Norton * Elizabeth Blackwell * Florence Nightingale * Emily Davies * Josephine Butler * Elizabeth Cady Stanton * Margaret Sanger * Emma Goldman
Significant Sisters traces the lives of eight women, each of whom pioneered vital changes in the spheres of law, education, the professions, morals or politics: the first woman doctor, the pioneer of birth control, a radical journalist, and suffragists. Each forged her own particular brand of feminism, yet all fought bravely to make real, lasting difference to women's lives, and make us redefine our own notions of feminism today.
Margaret Forster is alive to the debt we owe to such champions, who made our world so much more hospitable to women -- Marina Warner * Sunday Times *
Margaret Forster writes history with a novelist's eye for details and is interested in the contradictions and conflicts in her heroines' attitudes to their own femininity -- A. S. Byatt * The Times *
Humane, humorous and perceptive * Evening Standard *
Inspiring * Times Literary Supplement *
ISBN: 9780099455578
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 23mm
Weight: 256g
368 pages