Suffragettes, Class and Pit-Brow Women

Paula Bartley takes issue with those historians who depict the suffragettes of the Pankhursts' Women's Social and Political Union as elitists concerned only with upper- and middle-class women.

WSPU founders Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst

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