Suffragette Planners and Plotters

This true story about the British fight for women’s suffrage “looks at the tumultuous relationship between two couples who led the militant movement” ( Publishers Weekly ). In early twentieth-century England, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence was treasurer of the Women’s Social and Political Union, founded by the famed militant Mrs. Pankhurst. Emmeline’s husband, Fred, was the only man to achieve leadership status in the organization. Without their wealth, determination, and skills we might never have h