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Diane Atkinson lives in Shoreditch, London. She was born in the North-East and educated in Cornwall and London, where she completed a Ph.D. on the politics of women's sweated labour. She taught history at secondary schools in London before moving to the Museum of London, where she worked as a lecturer and curator, specialising in women's history. |
Diane Atkinson's latest book, Rise Up, Women!:
The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes is now available
to pre-order.
To read an extract from the book please go to
WRITINGS
ISBN 9781408844045
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Format Hardback
Date of publication 8 February 2018
To order, please go to www.bloomsbury.com
Endorsements
“A thrilling and inspiring read! For too long these extraordinary women have been hidden from history. Rise Up Women! should be a standard text in all schools and will be a treasured handbook for today’s feminists”Harriet Harman MP
“Atkinson chronicles the deeds and sufferings of more than 100 women in Edwardian Britain who clashed with the authorities in the pursuit of Votes for Women … The moral courage of these people is humbling”
Daily Telegraph, Summer Reading 2018
“Excellent”
Rachel Cooke, Observer, The year ahead in Non-fiction
“This is the untold story of the women’s suffrage movement at last revealed in glorious 360 degree detail. Rise Up Women! is heartbreaking, inspiring, and incredibly rewarding to read”
Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana
“Atkinson rightly dedicates much of her book to the many hundreds of less celebrated figures … What stays in mind is the bloody-minded determination and courage of a large number of these campaigners”
Caroline Moorehead, Guardian
“Substantial and impressive … Surely destined to become a key general text, ranking alongside classic tomes … Atkinson’s book provides an accessible, captivating, chronological account that incorporates recent developments as well as first-hand accounts”
Times Literary Supplement
“Patiently, skilfully and empathetically, Diane Atkinson gives us the fullest, most insightful history yet of the suffragette movement and the courageous women who drove it forward to eventual fruition”
David Kynaston, author of Austerity Britain
“In a new biography of the suffragette movement, Diane Atkinson has written not just a useful guide, but a terrific page-turner. It reads at times like a novel, but with characters and events you couldn’t make up. As you would expect, the Pankhursts are her in force, but so too are the music hall star Kitty Marion, weaver Dora Thewlis, clerk Jessie Stephenson, Princes Sophia Duleep Singh and more, showing a movement much broader than its commonly presented image … Atkinson’s tour de force shows the campaign was no genteel hobby, but an all-out war in which the bravest and most indomitable warriors were, without doubt, the suffragettes”
Louise Raw, Prospect
“Rise up and buy this book! Diane Atkinson has produced an instant classic of feminist history. All the spectacular drama and intrigue of the decade long militant campaign for the women’s vote is staged in this immensely readable suffragette epic”
Rachel Holmes, author of Eleanor Marx
“A shocking and yet curiously exhilarating history of a group of women from all classes who simply refused to be crushed … Atkinson makes us feel so proud of that fight”
Miranda Seymour, author of Noble Endeavours
“Diane Atkinson explores the lives of more than 100 militant campaigners and highlights the large part working-class women played in the struggle”
Tablet
“An exclusive and captivating story of this remarkable movement”
Hannah Beckerman, Sunday Express
“Covers the lives of more than 200 Suffragettes, not just Pankhurst and the names everybody knows”
Herald
“A comprehensive biography of over 200 suffragettes and the roles they played”
Mslexia
“Her sparse style in letting facts speak for themselves lends greater poignancy to her in-depth account … The author’s determination to give the lesser-known their due in this ‘collective biography’ makes up the backbone of the book … Historian Atkinson is a masterful and subtly witty arranger of the facts”
The Hindu
“Published to coincide with the centenary of women gaining the vote, this impressive group biography covers the lives of more than 200 Suffragettes and the role they played in securing the vote, through fifty years of campaigning. While she pays fitting tribute to such high-profile campaigners as the Pankhurst, Emily Davison and Annie Kenney (the mill girl from Oldham who became the poster girl of the Women's Social and Political Union), Atkinson also celebrates the contribution of many lesser-known figures, such as Dora Thewlis, a 16-year-old weaver from Huddersfield; boot-makers Alice and her husband Alfred Hawkins from Leicester, and music hall artiste Kitty Marion.”
The Bookseller
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