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Etta Lemon

Autor Tessa Boase
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2021
'A great story of pioneering conservation.' Kate Humble A heroine for our times, Etta Lemon campaigned for fifty years against the worldwide slaughter of wild birds for extravagantly feathered hats. As a young Victorian woman, Etta wrote militant letters to church-going ladies wearing feathered hats. As the pugnacious Secretary of the RSPB, she made ornithologists quake in their boots. Etta Lemon ran the long eco-campaign against the feather trade with single-minded tenacity, triumphing with the Plumage Act of 1921. She turned the tide against the insatiable fashion for feathered hats, saving countless species from extinction.
In her lifetime, Etta was known as 'Mother of the Birds'. Yet her triumphant battle against 'murderous millinery' has been eclipsed by the campaign for women's votes, led by the elegantly plumed Emmeline Pankhurst.

This gripping narrative explores two singular heroines and their rival, overlapping campaigns. Moving from the feather workers' slums to high society, from the first female political rally to the triumph of women's suffrage and the Plumage Act of 1921, it celebrates the extraordinary, untold story of Etta Lemon, the woman who saved the birds.
'Shocking and entertaining. The surprising story of the campaigning women who changed Britain." VIRGINIA NICHOLSON 'A fascinating and moving story, vividly told.' JOHN CAREY 'A fascinating clash of two causes: rights for women and rights for birds to fly free not adorn suffragettes' hats. An illuminating story, provocative, well-researched and brilliantly told.' DIANA SOUHAMI
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780711263383
ISBN-10: 0711263388
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Quarto Publishing Plc

Cuprins

Prologue vii
Part 1 - Feathers
1 Alice Battershall
2 Inspector Lakeman
3 97 Lever Street
4 Women Undercover
5 'Crewe Factory Girl'
6 The Skylark
Part 2 - Birds
7 Young Etta
8 Young Emmeline
9 The Train Carriage
10 Of Bird-Wearing Age
11 The Tea Party
12 Emily Williamson
13 A Very Ambitious Title
14 Flight
15 Impracticable Dreamers
16 Courting the Men
17 Winifred, Duchess of Portland
18 The Crème de la Crème
Part 3 - Hats
19 Dying to Get Out
20 The Millinery Detectives
21 Queen Alix
22 'Egret' Bennett
23 Deeds Not Words
24 The Frontal Attack
25 Mrs Pattinson
26 The Countess Fabbricotti
27 Royal Approval
28 The 'Suffragette'
Part 4 - Votes
29 Onto the Street
30 The Antis
31 The Feminine Arts
32 The Advice of Men
33 Maternal Weakness
34 Peak Rage
35 The Feeding Tube
36 Dumb Creation
Part 5 - Power
37 At War
38 The Ballot Box
39 But What Do Women Care?
40 Etta and Emmeline: Two Portraits
41 The Coup
Epilogue
Notes
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
Picture Credits

Descriere

ETTA LEMON: THE WOMAN WHO SAVED THE BIRDS is the story of a pioneering conservationist who led the campaign against the slaughter of wild birds for extravagantly feathered hats and coaxed the world to care for birds.