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Death in Ten Minutes

The forgotten life of radical suffragette Kitty Marion

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Death in Ten Minutes

By: Fern Riddell
Narrated by: Fern Riddell
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 The never before told story of radical suffragette Kitty Marion. Historian Fern Riddell finds a hidden diary and uses Kitty's own words to tell the story of her sensational life and explosive actions.

Kitty Marion was sent across the country by the Pankhurst family to carry out a nationwide campaign of bombings and arson attacks, as women fought for the vote using any means necessary. But in the aftermath of World War One, the dangerous and revolutionary actions of Kitty and other militant suffragettes were quickly hushed up and disowned by the previously proud movement, and the women who carried out these attacks were erased from our history. Now, for the first time, their untold story will be brought back to life.

Telling a new history of the women's movement in the light of new and often shocking revelations, this book will ask the question: Why has the life of this incredible woman, and the violence of the suffragettes been forgotten? And, one hundred years later, why are women suddenly finding themselves under threat again?

(P)2018 Hodder & Stoughton Limited©2018 Fern Riddell Historical Politics & Government Women Women in Politics World War
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Really enjoyed this. Good narration and story telling and message for our time and the future.

Fantastic book!

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What a wonderful and enlightening story from a true heroine. Gives life to the real struggle for the suffrage movement in the early 20th Century with a resonance for the difficulties many women still suffer today. Yes the we should question the methods used to make their point but the forced feeding is a permanent stain on our government and makes the risks taken far more understandable. The story is read with obvious care for the subject which deserved to be known.

Wonderful and Harrowing in equal measure.

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What we know of the Suffragettes and their movement comes to us highly sanitised. This book reveals the violence the women took part in- so much so that public buildings often took out specific Suffragette insurance in the early 20th century, something I was completely unaware of. A truly fascinating listen, well written and we'll read.

Revealing an Untold History

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What an amazing piece of history. Something all women, in fact all people should read.
Listening to this book has been an education and I’ve learned to much about women’s suffrage as a result.
Beautifully read by the author. I didn’t want it to end. Thank you

Exquisite!

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A book that should be required reading and a history that should be on every school curriculum.

Explosive

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