Significant Sisters

Informationen zum Autor Born in Carlisle! Margaret Forster was the author of many successful and acclaimed novels! including Have the Men Had Enough? ! Lady's Maid ! Diary of an Ordinary Woman ! Is There Anything You Want? ! Keeping the World Away ! Over and The Unknown Bridesmaid . She also wrote bestselling memoirs - Hidden Lives! Precious Lives and! most recently! My Life in Houses - and biographies. She was married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies and lived in London and the Lake District. She died in February 2016! just before her last novel! How to Measure a Cow ! was published. Klappentext Born in Carlisle! Margaret Forster was the author of many successful and acclaimed novels! including Have the Men Had Enough? ! Lady's Maid ! Diary of an Ordinary Woman ! Is There Anything You Want? ! Keeping the World Away ! Over and The Unknown Bridesmaid . She also wrote bestselling memoirs ¿ Hidden Lives! Precious Lives and! most recently! My Life in Houses ¿ and biographies. She was married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies and lived in London and the Lake District. She died in February 2016! just before her last novel! How to Measure a Cow ! was published. Zusammenfassung Eight women who changed the world Caroline Norton * Elizabeth Blackwell * Florence Nightingale * Emily Davies * Josephine Butler * Elizabeth Cady Stanton * Margaret Sanger * Emma Goldman Significant Sisters traces the lives of eight women, each of whom pioneered vital changes in the spheres of law, education, the professions, morals or politics: the first woman doctor, the pioneer of birth control, a radical journalist, and suffragists. Each forged her own particular brand of feminism, yet all fought bravely to make real, lasting difference to women's lives, and make us redefine our own notions of feminism today. ...

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Forster, Forster Margaret
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.10.2004
• EAN: 9780099455578
• ISBN: 978-0-09-945557-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Biography: historical, political & military, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, MEDICAL / History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Women in Business, HISTORY / Women, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Medicine, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients), Feminism & feminist theory, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Gender studies: women, Biography: business and industry, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Biography: historical, political and military, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General