"She Died for Freedom:" Emily Wilding Davison, Inez Milholland and the Value of Martyrs to the Militant Suffrage Movement

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"She Died for Freedom:" Emily Wilding Davison, Inez Milholland and the Value of Martyrs to the Militant Suffrage Movement

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title: "She Died for Freedom:" Emily Wilding Davison, Inez Milholland and the Value of Martyrs to the Militant Suffrage Movement

creator: Weinberg, Hannah

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description: Chapter one tracks the development of the WSPU, and how the combination of increased antagonism with the police and the poor treatment of suffragettes in prison lead to a fascination with martyrdom in the group culminating in the death and martyrdom of Emily Wilding Davison. Chapter two will track how the illness and death of Inez Milholland, a celebrity within and without the NWP, allowed for a narrative of martyrdom to form that provided a catalyst and justification for future militant action in the United States. Chapter three will illustrate how the propaganda arms of the NWP and WSPU utilized the deaths of Inez Milholland and Emily Wilding Davison to galvanize their members. Together these chapters will show how martyrdom helped to define militancy in the United States and Great Britain

publisher: Simmons College (Boston, Mass.)

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date: 2018

type: Text

format: 1 PDF (72 Pages)

identifier: td_ha_2018_hw

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language: English

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rights: Material from the Simmons University Archives collections are made available for study purposes only. For more information, or to request rights to reproduce or reuse any material, contact the University Archives at archives@simmons.edu.

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