Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
As a librarian and women’s studies scholar, I greatly appreciate the research. 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).
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