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Diane Atkinson is the author of two illustrated history books, Suffragettes in Pictures and Funny Girls: Cartooning for Equality, and three biographies, Love & Dirt, Elsie and Mairi Go to War and The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton. A regular lecturer on the suffragettes at conferences and literary festivals, Diane Atkinson has also appeared on radio programmes including Woman's Hour, and has consulted on numerous television documentaries, as well as, most recently, the film Suffragette, starring Meryl Streep and Helena Bonham-Carter. She lives in London. dianeatkinson.co.uk @DitheDauntless
Pretty much a definitive history of the suffragettes (hurl this volume at a Westminster window, and it would break in an instant) ... It's a huge achievement that her narrative, so crisp and clear, is never less than enthralling -- Rachel Cooke * Observer * An exclusive and captivating story of this remarkable movement -- Hannah Beckerman * Sunday Express * A definitive history of the suffragettes ... Atkinson exhorts her readers to salute the suffragettes. She is right to so do. It is easy to assume that women's suffrage was inevitable, but that should not detract from the efforts and losses undertaken by the pioneers so vividly described here -- Lucy Scholes * The Times * The definitive history of the movement -- Tom Gatti * New Statesman, What to read in 2018 * Atkinson's great achievement is to gather together the terrible facts in the protracted battle for women's suffrage. Their cumulative impact in this ultimately magisterial account is overwhelming -- Miranda Seymour * Telegraph * Atkinson rightly dedicates much of her book to the many hundreds of less celebrated figures ... What stays in mind is the bloody-minded determination and courage of a large number of these campaigners -- Caroline Moorehead * Guardian * Glorious ...What it does emphasise is the courage of those women -- Daisy Goodwin * Sunday Times * Substantial and impressive ... Surely destined to become a key general text, ranking alongside classic tomes ... Atkinson's book provide an accessible, captivating, chronological account that incorporates recent developments as well as first-hand accounts -- Emelyn Godfrey * Times Literary Supplement * Over the past few weeks, Scotland has been celebrating the centenary of Muriel Spark, who once wrote of a character: She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings. This is what the books by Robinson and Atkinson teach us about the suffragists and the suffragettes alike. Right or wrong, they took control of their own destinies. They did all the happenings * Glasgow Herald *
