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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The purple feather of the title is an ostrich plume (now housed in the Museum of London), a symbol of Emmeline’s crusade and personal style (if you saw the 2015 film Suffragette , Meryl Streep, playing Pankhurst, is wearing a hat full purple feathers). side, the writings of New York City reformer Mary Van Kleeck. This is good stuff.

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