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It must have been tempting for the author to probe the psychology of the family and the differences which divided them when all of them had basically the same objective. She prefers to avoid that, instead devoting the book to hard fact, both biographical and historical. This is done very effectively, for the campaign of female suffrage took place against the background of a turbulent age with the First World War and the Home Rue crisis also occupying the minds of the government. The result is a skilfully balanced and very readable narrative. It is prefaced with a four-page foreword by her son Richard Pankhurst, in which he reflects on the changes at which his mother might have rejoiced and mourned in the half-century since her death.

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