Fearless Woman: Hanna Sheeny Skeffington, Feminism and the Irish Revolution
- ISBN-10
- 1910820407
- ISBN-13
- 9781910820407
- Category
- Feminism
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Author
- Margaret Ward
Description
An auto-biography, of sorts, from 20th century Irish feminist Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, which uses her letters, writings, and other primary sources. This book looks at Skeffington's women's suffrage years, anti-war campaigns, prison experiences, the impact of the brutal killing of her husband, meetings with Prime Minister Asquith and President Wilson, the bitter years of civil war, impressions of Bolshevik Russia, inter-war Europe, her friendship with Constance Markievicz, debates with Sean O'Casey, and her involvement in feminist campaigns against the exclusion of women from public life during the 1930s and 1940s. With b&w plates.
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