Books written by Diane Atkinson
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Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes
Mary Leigh seized her moment when she spotted Asquith travelling in an open carriage with his family, John Redmond, and the Lord Mayor of Dublin. She hurled a hatchet at him as the open carriage passed the General Post Office taking the ...
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Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front
Early in December, John Redmond, an Irish Nationalist member of parliament, visited Elsie and Mairi at Pervyse and made special mention of Miss Chisholm in a vivid account of his tour of the Western Front. The Bournemouth Daily Echo ...
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Criminal Conversation of Mrs. Norton: Victorian England's "Scandal of the Century" and the Fallen Socialite Who Changed Women's Lives Fore
Figuring into this fascinating story are Norton’s friend and confidante Mary Shelley, longtime admirer Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, Queen Victoria, and other literary and royal heavyweights of the day.
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The Suffragettes in Pictures
This title draws on the little-known Suffragette Fellowship Collectionn of archive photographs, newspapers, personal correspondence, artefacts and memoirs, to present a vivid picture of Suffragette life. The book has rare...
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Love and Dirt: The Marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick
Love and Dirt is the story of a deep and lasting love between two extraordinary individuals who breached the barriers of class and endangered their vastly different stations in Victorian society.
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Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front
Warfare & defence.