BRITTAIN, Vera.

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Pethick-Lawrence: A Portrait. First edition, signed by the author on the title page soon after publication. Loosely inserted is the lower half of a letter dated 1908, signed by Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Mabel Tuke, "On behalf of the Women's Social & Political Union". As indicated beside their signatures, they were the "Hon. Treasurer" and "Hon. Secretary" of the WSPU.Brittain records the life of her friend Frederick Pethick-Lawrence (1871-1961), who was a prominent suffrage campaigner. Brittain draws heavily on his personal papers to narrate his early life, activism, conversion to socialism, and his political career, during which he was Secretary of State for India and Burma. In 1912 the Pethick-Lawrences and Tuke were all arrested, following an incident of violent WSPU activism. Tuke was also active in the Actresses' Franchise League and appeared widely on the Edwardian stage.

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