the many lives of Mary Sophia Allen
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Boyd, Nina
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 2013 ALL - B
- Thesaurus
- suffragettes, politieagenten, fascisme, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of Mary Sophia Allen (1878–1964), a British woman who started as a suffragette, and became later one of the first British policewomen. With her lifelong obsession with uniforms and masculine authority, she was strongly drawn to dictatorial men, and was proud to have met Hitler and Mussolini. She became a devoted follower of Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Fascists.