Suffragette Fascists: Emmeline Pankhurst and Her Right-Wing Followers

by Simon Webb

Emmeline Pankhurst is seen today as a valiant champion of democracy, but in the 1930s certain prominent former suffragettes were comparing her to Hitler and Mussolini. It was suggested that Mrs Pankhurst and her Women's Social and Political Union could be viewed as a proto-fascist movement; an idea likely to strike the modern reader as grotesque.

Yet the WSPU certainly had much in common with the fascist parties that emerged after the end of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526756889
• ISBN13: 9781526756886
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Pen and Sword History
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"