Diane Atkinson: 3 books
Rise Up Women!
The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Marking the centenary of female suffrage, this definitive history charts women's fight for the vote through the lives of those who took part, in a timely celebration of an extraordinary struggle
An Observer Pick of 2018
A Telegraph Book of 2018
A New Statesman Book of 2018
Between the...
Criminal Conversation of Mrs. Norton
Victorian England's "Scandal of the Century" and the Fallen Socialite Who Changed Women's Lives Fore
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
A forgotten heroine of the women’s rights movement is rescued from obscurity in this biography of Caroline Norton, a respected poet, songwriter, and socialite whose 1836 adultery trial rocked Victorian England. When George Norton accused his wife of having an affair with the British Prime Minister...
by Diane Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
The incredible story of two courageous and spirited women who were the only female participants to serve on the western front during World War I.
When they met at a motorcycle club in 1912, Elsie Knocker was a thirty year-old motorcycling divorcee dressed in bottle-green Dunhill leathers, and...