Significant Sisters
Margaret Forster
  • Published: 3 January 2005
  • ISBN: 9780099455578
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $22.99
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Significant Sisters

The Grassroots of Active Feminism, 1839-1939

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'A compulsively readable account' A. S. Byatt, The Times

Eight women who changed the world

Caroline Norton * Elizabeth Blackwell * Florence Nightingale * Emily Davies * Josephine Butler * Elizabeth Cady Stanton * Margaret Sanger * Emma Goldman

Significant Sisters traces the lives of eight women, each of whom pioneered vital changes in the spheres of law, education, the professions, morals or politics: the first woman doctor, the pioneer of birth control, a radical journalist, and suffragists. Each forged her own particular brand of feminism, yet all fought bravely to make real, lasting difference to women's lives, and make us redefine our own notions of feminism today.
  • Published: 3 January 2005
  • ISBN: 9780099455578
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

About the author

Margaret Forster

Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster was the author of many successful and acclaimed novels, including Have the Men Had Enough?, Lady's Maid, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Is There Anything You Want? , Keeping the World Away, Over and The Unknown Bridesmaid. She also wrote bestselling memoirs – Hidden Lives, Precious Lives and, most recently, My Life in Houses – and biographies. She was married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies and lived in London and the Lake District. She died in February 2016, just before her last novel, How to Measure a Cow, was published.

Also by Margaret Forster

Diary of an Ordinary Schoolgirl
How to Measure a Cow
My Life in Houses
The Unknown Bridesmaid
Shadow Baby
The Memory Box
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Praise for Significant Sisters

Margaret Forster is alive to the debt we owe to such champions, who made our world so much more hospitable to women

Marina Warner, Sunday Times

Margaret Forster writes history with a novelist's eye for details and is interested in the contradictions and conflicts in her heroines' attitudes to their own femininity

A. S. Byatt, The Times

Humane, humorous and perceptive

Evening Standard

Inspiring

Times Literary Supplement
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