Charlotte Despard: A Biography

Charlotte Despard: A Biography

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Margaret Mulvihill has written a biography of Charlotte Despard (1844-1939), the woman who, with Mrs Pankhurst and Mrs Fawcett, was one of the three widow-leaders of the Votes for Women movement. She was a friend of Keir Hardie, a parliamentary candidate in 1918 and Maud Gonne's companion in her IRA safehouse. She was simultaneously a Theosophist and a Catholic, a pacifist and a revolutionary, a philanthropist and a socialist, as well as being a feminist, a Republican and a popular novelist. Margaret Mulvihill has also written two novels, "Natural Selection" and "Low Overheads".

Author: Margaret Mulvihill
Format: Paperback, 224 pages, 129mm x 197mm
Published: 1995, HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography: Historical, Political & Military

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Margaret Mulvihill has written a biography of Charlotte Despard (1844-1939), the woman who, with Mrs Pankhurst and Mrs Fawcett, was one of the three widow-leaders of the Votes for Women movement. She was a friend of Keir Hardie, a parliamentary candidate in 1918 and Maud Gonne's companion in her IRA safehouse. She was simultaneously a Theosophist and a Catholic, a pacifist and a revolutionary, a philanthropist and a socialist, as well as being a feminist, a Republican and a popular novelist. Margaret Mulvihill has also written two novels, "Natural Selection" and "Low Overheads".