Etta Lemon - The Woman Who Saved the Birds

St Leonards on Sea, Sussex

List of contents

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
 

About the author

Tessa Boase has written three books of social history: The Housekeeper’s Tale (2014); Etta Lemon (first published as Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather in 2018), both by Aurum, and London’s Lost Department Stores (2022). She is a journalist, lecturer and broadcaster, appearing on ‘Secrets of the National Trust’ with Alan Titchmarsh, ‘Tony Robinson’s History of Britain’, and ‘Jay Blades’ Country House Through Time’. 
She lives with her family on the Sussex coast. www.tessaboase.com

Summary

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.

Additional text

'A fascinating book...packed with interesting facts. A great read for all people'

Product details

• Authors: Tessa Boase, Boase Tessa
• Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9780711263383
• ISBN: 978-0-7112-6338-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; NATURE / Animals / Birds, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Political activism, Conservation of wildlife & habitats, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Society and culture: general, C 1900 - C 1914, Endangered species and extinction of species