My Own Story (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JESS PHILLIPS

Soldier, criminal, militant, hooligan, revolutionary: these labels Emmeline Pankhurst took up and wore proudly in her long struggle for women’s suffrage. This shortened edition of her autobiography tells the inside story of this struggle: the tireless campaigning, the betrayals by men in power, the relentless round of arrests and hunger strikes, the horror of force-feeding. It is a reminder of the controversial means, the indomitable spirit and the sacrifices of life and liberty by which women won their political freedom.


"She shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back" (Time)

"Rests somewhere between a gripping novel and a painstaking historical record. No view of the suffragette story is complete without this comprehensive puzzle piece" (Independent)

"She put body and soul at the service of liberty, equality and fraternity and secured a triumph for them" (Rebecca West) "Emmeline Pankhurst fought for women's suffrage with indomitable courage" (Guardian)