Bring Out The Banners

Author: Geoffrey Trease

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  • : $14.99 AUD
  • : 9781408191866
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : A & C Black Publishers Ltd
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  • : 30 April 2013
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 14.99
  • : 31 May 2013
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Barcode 9781408191866
9781408191866

Description

An office worker and an aristocratic young lady become unlikely friends as they work together for women's right to vote. A thrilling story of secret meetings, police oppression and social upheaval, as well as an accurate account of the Suffragette movement in the years before the First World War. Republished to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the death of suffragette martyr Emily Davison.

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Two young women from very different backgrounds become unlikely friends as they struggle for women's right to vote in the approach to the First World War.

Author description

Geoffrey Trease is best known as a writer of children's historical fiction. His thrilling, meticulously researched stories were pioneering in their use of female as well as male characters, and their sense of justice and fairness. He died in 1998.