With All Her Might: The Life of Gertrude Harding, Militant Suffragette - Softcover

Gretchen Wilson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0864921845 ISBN 13: 9780864921840

Publisher: Goose Lane Editions, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Wilson, Gretchen

About this title

From the Back Cover:

For two years, Gertrude Harding lived an outlaw's life as a Militant Suffragette. Harding grew up in rural New Brunswick and spent a comfortable sojourn in Hawaii without a thought of voting. Then, in 1912, she arrived in London and saw the Militant Suffragettes in action. Harding began her Suffragette career by wrecking an orchid house at Kew Gardens. In 1913, she led Emmeline Pankhurst's bodyguard, a cadre armed with Indian clubs who defended Mrs. Pankhurst against the police. When government violence diminished, Harding turned to journalism, working in secret to publish The Suffragette. She even served as Christabel Pankhurst's private secretary in Christabel's Paris sanctuary.

When the Suffragettes disbanded, Harding became a social worker, first in a munitions factory in England and later in Bound Brook, New Jersey.

About the Author:

Gertrude Harding was Saint John writer Gretchen Wilson's great-aunt. In With All Her Might, Wilson tells the story of the murderous battle for women's suffrage and a Canadian woman's role in it.

About this edition

• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0864921845
• ISBN 13: 9780864921840
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264