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Significant Sisters

The Grassroots of Active Feminism, 1839-1939

Margaret Forster

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English
Vintage
03 January 2005
'A compulsively readable account' A. S. Byatt, The Times

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.
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   256g
ISBN:   9780099455578
ISBN 10:   0099455579
Pages:   352
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Margaret Forster was born in Carlisle in 1938. She is the author of bestselling memoirs, Hidden Lives and Precious Lives, acclaimed biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and of many successful novels, such as Lady's Maid, Private Papers & most recently The Memory Box.

Reviews for Significant Sisters: The Grassroots of Active Feminism, 1839-1939

In her introduction Margaret Forster identifies herself as a product of everything these eight remarkable women fought to achieve. Without the likes of Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Blackwell, Florence Nightingale, Emily Davies, Josephine Butler, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sander and Emma Goldman feminism she says would have been nothing - they 'were stepping-stones too important for any water, especially the brackish water of ignorance, to wash away.' She illustrates the evolution of feminism over 100 years through these women's struggles with the law, medicine, employment, education, sexual morality, politics and birth control. These are no dry historical accounts. They are Margaret Forster's own 'warts and all' portraits of women from very different backgrounds. The book appeals for our sympathy and understanding of the way feminism has developed and should continue to do so in the future. An inspiring book. (Kirkus UK)


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