fashion, fury and feminism
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Boase, Tessa
- Publish Year
- 2018
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 61 2018 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenkiesrecht, mode, dieren, vrouwenarbeid, Verenigd Koninkrijk, biografische gegevens
- Description
- When Mrs Pankhurst stormed the House of Commons with militant suffragettes in 1908, she wore on her hat a purple feather. This is the story behind that feather. Twelve years before the suffragette movement began dominating headlines, a very different women’s campaign captured the public imagination. Its aim was radical: to stamp out the fashion for feathers in hats. Leading the fight was a woman just as heroic as Emmeline Pankhurst, but with opposite beliefs. Her name was Etta Lemon, and she was anti-fashion, anti-feminist and anti-suffrage. Few, today, are aware that Britain’s biggest conservation charity, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, was born through the determined efforts of a handful of women, led by the indomitable Mrs Lemon. While the suffragettes were slashing paintings and smashing shop windows, Etta Lemon and her local secretaries were challenging ‘murderous millinery’ all the way up to Parliament.