Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. The late Victorian age was not a good time to be an egret! side, the writings of New York City reformer Mary Van Kleeck.
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