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Death in Ten Minutes

The forgotten life of radical suffragette Kitty Marion

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Death in Ten Minutes

By: Fern Riddell
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Summary

 The never before told story of radical suffragette Kitty Marion. Historian Fern Riddell finds a hidden diary and uses Kitty's own words to tell the story of her sensational life and explosive actions.

Kitty Marion was sent across the country by the Pankhurst family to carry out a nationwide campaign of bombings and arson attacks, as women fought for the vote using any means necessary. But in the aftermath of World War One, the dangerous and revolutionary actions of Kitty and other militant suffragettes were quickly hushed up and disowned by the previously proud movement, and the women who carried out these attacks were erased from our history. Now, for the first time, their untold story will be brought back to life.

Telling a new history of the women's movement in the light of new and often shocking revelations, this book will ask the question: Why has the life of this incredible woman, and the violence of the suffragettes been forgotten? And, one hundred years later, why are women suddenly finding themselves under threat again?

(P)2018 Hodder & Stoughton Limited©2018 Fern Riddell Historical Politics & Government Women Women in Politics World War
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Really enjoyed this. Good narration and story telling and message for our time and the future.

Fantastic book!

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What a wonderful and enlightening story from a true heroine. Gives life to the real struggle for the suffrage movement in the early 20th Century with a resonance for the difficulties many women still suffer today. Yes the we should question the methods used to make their point but the forced feeding is a permanent stain on our government and makes the risks taken far more understandable. The story is read with obvious care for the subject which deserved to be known.

Wonderful and Harrowing in equal measure.

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Amazingly interesting book, really well written and read. so interesting hearing so much stuff that I hadn't been aware of before and presented in such and engaging way.

Amazingly interesting book

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I heard this writer on Women’s Hour talking. About Kitty Marion and this book. It sounded fascinating and promised to reveal hidden facts about the Suffragette movement in the early twentieth century. It did not disappoint and showed that the campaigns of the suffragettes were not just a case of ‘chaining themselves to railings’ and marching. These women were fearless and destructive and their ‘history’ has been watered down with Kitty Marion tipexed out of it.
She was instigator of the 19th Century ‘me too’ campaign in the music halls, standing up to powerful agents who took advantage on powerless actresses. She carried out acts of vandalism against buildings in the suffrage fight, planting bombs and being subjected to numerous force feedings when in prison yet doesn’t appear in any feminists accounts.
Fern Riddell has uncovered her story and tells it with great detail and. respect
Definitely worth a credit !

Missing History

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I highly recommend this book. It is informative ,at times uncomfortably so, as the ‘fluffy’ sanitised history of the suffragette movement is swept away.

History should not be comfortable’

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